Now some people suffer from the bone defects for various reasons, and how to solve this problem has become a hot topic internationally in the field of tissue engineering. By the analysis of all kinds of the bone defects, an all-purpose approach using bionic bone scaffold to repair the bone defects is proposed in this paper to help the doctors to diagnose the state of the bone defect illness with the real models manufactured by the rapid prototyping technology. Meanwhile, a clinic application is given to prove the feasibility of this approach.
Bionic modeling technology of bone defect repair plays a key role in the process of repairing defective bone based on tissue engineering. In this paper, via studying the structure of bone defect repair, new concept of bionic scaffold is put forward and a new method of integrating medical image processing, 3D reconstruction and CAD technology to construct the bionic scaffold of repairing bone defect is presented. Using the system implemented by this method, the bionic scaffold of repairing a skull is constructed. The evaluation of porosity of scaffold is also analyzed.
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