[SOP-surgical operation planning]

Our active research project DFG Eu-49/1-2 strives to the reconstruction of bone defects basing on the individual craniofacial implants prefabricated within the TICC-processing-chain. In cases of disease of the bone the defect is to plan and the bone has to be resected. The planning of the defect is done on CT- and CAD-data. The common visualisation of this different data-types (CT-data as pixel- or voxel-data on the one hand and CAD-data as geometry-data on the other hand) was not possible in the used application. The development of "Surgical Operation Planning" (SOP) results in an application between CT-visualisation and CAD-application and allows the common visualisation and planning for defect reconstructions.