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US 9,292,920 B2Granted
Methods and systems for producing an implant
AssigneeOsteoplastics, LLC
InventorsHoward 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.
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A computer implemented method for determining the 3-dimensional shape of a medical device, the method comprising:
- obtaining a computer readable image including a defective portion and a non-defective portion of tissue in a subject;
- rendering from the image data a computer-generated 3-dimensional representation of the defective portion and the non-defective portion of the tissue;
- identifying anatomical landmarks on the computer-generated 3-dimensional representation of the defective portion and the non-defective portion of the tissue;
- superimposing on the computer-generated 3-dimensional representation of the defective portion and the non-defective portion of the tissue a template to span the defective portion;
- deforming the template to match the anatomical landmarks;
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- determining the 3-dimensional shape of the medical device based on the template that spans the defective portion.
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