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US 10,068,671 B2Granted
Methods and systems for producing an implant
AssigneeOsteoplastics, LLC
InventorsH. David Dean, Krishnamoorthy Subramanyan, Alexandros T. Moullas, Robert A. Ratcheson
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Abstract
A computer implemented method for determining the 3-dimensional shape of an implant to be implanted into a subject includes obtaining a computer readable image including a defective portion and a non-defective portion of tissue in the subject, superimposing on the image a shape to span the defective portion, and determining the 3-dimensional shape of the implant based on the shape that spans the defective portion.
Claims5
A method of fabricating a medical device, the method comprising:
- obtaining data regarding a shape of the medical device, wherein the shape is determined by:
- (a) creating a computer-based three-dimensional representation of a target tissue from computer readable image data of the target tissue wherein the target tissue comprises a portion with a defect and a portion without a defect;
- (b) providing a computer-based three-dimensional template to span the defective portion;
- (c) altering the shape of the three-dimensional template to fit at least a portion of a surface of the computer-based three-dimensional representation;
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- (d) determining the shape of the medical device at least partially based on the shape of the altered three-dimensional template that spans the defective region to obtain the data regarding the shape of the medical device;
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- fabricating the medical device at least partially based on using the obtained data regarding the shape of the medical device.
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