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Published on: September 17, 2019
Cylindrical depth image based customized helical bone plate design
Udeok Seo1, Yoo-Joo Choi2, Ku-Jin Kim3
13D Convergence Technology Center, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu, 41566, South Korea; School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu, 41566, South Korea.
Abstract:
Commercial straight metal plates have been generally used to fix fractured bones, but recently, the need for customized and helical metal plates has emerged. Customized metal plates are designed to fit the shape of the fracture area that is a 3D curved surface, making it more difficult than designing on a 2D plane. Helical plates are researched due to their advantage in avoiding blood vessel damage compared to commercially available straight metal plates. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to design a customized helical metal plate for the femur using cylindrical depth images and Boolean operations. We also present the results of 3D printing a metal plate designed using the proposed algorithm, and the shape matching is verified by calculating the minimum distance between the surface of the printed plate and the surface of the femur.
