title: Digital geometry processing applied in customized medical implant design.
abstract: Standard medical implants are used in most implantation cases, but in some special cases, only those implants conforming to individual patient's skeletal morphology can serve the purpose. This paper proposes a new approach to design and fabricate customized exact-fit medical implants. With a real surgical case as the example, technical design details are presented; and two algorithms are given respectively for segmentation based on object features and triangular mesh defragmentation.
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, 200030, China.
authors.forename: Zhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xiao-Feng
authors.forename: Wang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cheng-Tao