Implant and a method of making the implant and a method of calculating porosity of a porous material
Assigneesb-ONE Medical (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., b-ONE Medical Biotech Corporation, b-ONE Ortho, Corp.
InventorsZongtao ZHANG, Imants LIEPINS, Michael LOWRY
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Abstract
A method of making an implant having a porous portion is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining an artificial foam containing porous portion; scanning the artificial foam to obtain a digital porous model; editing the digital porous model; assembling the digital porous model to form a digital porous block; editing the digital porous block to obtain a digital implant model; forming the implant by printing the digital implant model through a 3D printer. An implant and a method of calculating porosity a porosity of a porous material are also disclosed.
Claims20
A method of making an implant having a porous portion, comprising:
- obtaining an artificial foam containing porous portion;
- scanning the artificial foam to obtain a digital porous model;
- editing the digital porous model;
- assembling the digital porous model to form a digital porous block;
- editing the digital porous block to obtain a digital implant model;
- forming the implant by printing the digital implant model through a 3D printer.
An implant, wherein the implant has a substrate and a porous portion overlapping the substrate, the implant being made through the following steps:
- obtaining an artificial foam containing porous portion;
- scanning the artificial foam to obtain a digital porous model;
- editing the digital porous model;
- assembling the digital porous model to form a digital porous block;
- editing the digital porous block to obtain a digital implant model;
- forming the implant by printing the digital implant model through a 3D printer.
A method of calculating a porosity of a porous material, the method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a first porosity by measuring a porosity of the porous material by micro-CT scan;
- obtaining an actual porosity by multiplying the first porosity by a porosity calibration factor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.