title: Structural Simulation of a Bone-Prosthesis System of the Knee Joint.
abstract: In surgical knee replacement, the damaged knee joint is replaced with artificial prostheses. An accurate clinical evaluation must be carried out before applying knee prostheses to ensure optimal outcome from surgical operations and to reduce the probability of having long-term problems. Useful information can be inferred from estimates of the stress acting onto the bone-prosthesis system of the knee joint. This information can be exploited to tailor the prosthesis to the patient's anatomy. We present a compound system for pre-operative surgical planning based on structural simulation of the bone-prosthesis system, exploiting patient-specific data.
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institut f¨ur Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik Str¨omungs- und Materialsimulation, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany. andrae@itwm.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Heiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Andrä
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit`a di Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. battiato@dmi.unict.it.
authors.forename: Sebastiano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Battiato
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit`a di Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. bilotta@dmi.unict.it.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bilotta
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit`a di Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. gfarinella@dmi.unict.it.
authors.forename: Giovanni Q M
authors.initials: GQ
authors.lastname: Farinella
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit`a di Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. impoco@dmi.unict.it.
authors.forename: Gaetano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Impoco
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institut f¨ur Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik Str¨omungs- und Materialsimulation, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany. julia.orlik@itwm.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Orlik
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit`a di Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. russo@dmi.unict.it.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer Institut f¨ur Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik Str¨omungs- und Materialsimulation, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany. zemitis@itwm.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Aivars
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zemitis
keywords: 3D segmentation; FEM; Medical Imaging; diagnostic systems; stress simulation