Methods and systems for making a blood vessel sleeve

A system comprising:

• means for extracting two or more sets of data, each data set defining a contour of a blood vessel sleeve at least partly based on the blood vessel data from an individual;
• means for interpolating data that represent one or more regions between two or more contours of a blood vessel sleeve to specify one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions, including means for applying at least one sleeve-fitting algorithm to the blood vessel data to obtain the one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions;
• and
• means for making a rapid-prototyped blood vessel sleeve at least partly based on the one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions.

A computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory signal-bearing medium bearing
• (a) one or more instructions for extracting two or more sets of data, each data set defining a contour of a blood vessel sleeve at least partly based on the blood vessel data from an individual;
• (b) one or more instructions for interpolating data that represent one or more regions between two or more contours of a blood vessel sleeve, including one or more instructions for applying at least one sleeve-fitting algorithm to the blood vessel data to obtain one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions;
• and
• (c) one or more instructions for making a rapid-prototyped blood vessel sleeve at least partly based on the one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions.

A system comprising:

• a computing device;
• and
• instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to
• (a) extract two or more sets of data, each data set defining a contour of a blood vessel sleeve at least partly based on the blood vessel data from an individual;
• (b) interpolate data that represent one or more regions between two or more contours of a blood vessel sleeve to specify one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions, including apply at least one sleeve-fitting algorithm to the blood vessel data to obtain one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions;
• and
• (c) make a rapid-prototyped blood vessel sleeve at least partly based on the one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions.