Automated patient-specific bone-implant biomechanical analysis
AssigneeO.N.Diagnostics, LLC
InventorsPaul Frederick Hoffmann, Tony M. Keaveny, David L. Kopperdahl
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Abstract
An apparatus, method, and computer program product for providing information for surgical planning based on automated biomechanical analysis of a bone-implant system using finite element analysis of a patient's 3D medical image, including automated biomechanical analysis of bone-implant systems for use in surgical planning both pre-operatively and intra-operatively and for use in research and development studies.
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A computer-implemented method for application of finite element analysis of bone-implant systems evaluating a biomechanical performance of each bone-implant model of a set of bone-implant models for an implant implanted into a bone structure of a patient, the method comprising:
- receiving a set of patient-specific data of the bone structure;
- creating, for each bone-implant model of the set of bone-implant models, an associated patient-specific bone-implant finite element model representing at least a portion of the bone structure based on said set of patient-specific data, wherein said patient-specific bone-implant finite element model is created in part from a pre-constructed non-patient-specific bone-implant mesh;
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- determining an implant result for each particular bone-implant model of the set of bone-implant models based upon a finite element analysis of said patient-specific bone-implant finite element model associated with said particular bone-implant model.
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