An online system for the support of Total Hip Arthroplasty and rapid implant design and manufacturing

Abstract

As Information Technology (IT) and Engineering advances are becoming widely available, other scientific disciplines are taking advantage of them. Especially, medicine can benefit greatly from applications of IT or Engineering or their combination. Nevertheless, medical professionals lack the required IT-expertise and training. This fact poses several problems, both in the initial acceptance of novel technologies and their subsequent efficient use. This work presents an IT system, as applied to Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA)preoperative planning. The system is designed to provide insight to the patient's anatomy, as well as assist the operating surgeon with the selection, design and fitting of orthopedic implants. Furthermore, special care has been given to ease of use and hiding the complexities involved when cross discipline expertise is required.

Study of Different Printing Design Type Polymer Samples Prepared by Additive Manufacturing

“…A suitable tool for subsequent simulation of test conditions for prepared samples is Computer Aided Engineering-Finite Element Method (CAE-FEM), where simulations of both mechanical and thermal properties can be performed [36][37][38]. CAE-FEM is a field of application in medicine and industry [39][40][41][42][43][44], which has numerous advantages. It saves time and money, improves designs, reduces errors in the design and drawing process, the impacts of parameters change on a system can be studied with more accuracy, and visualization is easy [45].…”