Overview
Project status: In progress
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- Lead unit Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation Other units
Details
From CT data to an average model of the distal Femur
With the development and popularisation of minimally invasive surgical methods and implants for fracture fixation, it is increasingly important that available implants are pre-contoured to the specific anatomical location for which they are designed. Due to differences in the bone morphology, which are dependent on factors such as the patient's age, gender and ethnic origin, it is impossible to design single implants that are universally applicable for the entire human population. In order to optimise the fit of implants for a specific population there is a need to investigate and categorise the morphological differences that exist between bones in the population of interest.
The aim of this project is to develop a bone morphology database for the Asian population. The goal of this database is to define a limited number of average morphologies for a given bone that represent a large percentage of the respective population. Since 2003, a similar research project is underway at the AO Development Institute in Davos, Switzerland, to develop a morphology database for the Caucasian population.
The project encompasses the collection of image data (CT & MRI), reconstruction of the data into 3D models, analysis and categorisation of the data, and the development of averaged bone morphologies.
