抄録
Custom-made hip implants can offer the best available solution for patients with femoral anatomical deformity associated with arthritis when application of standard implant would not be appropriate. Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques are ideal for fabricating custom made objects with intricate external and internal geometry. In the present work, a design and digital fabrication methodology of patient-specific hip implants using AM based on patient CT images data have been introduced. The proposed methodology comprises the integration of medical imaging, CAD, anatomical reverse engineering, virtual reality (VR) and additive manufacturing. The methodology increases the potential of customizing implants to improve the geometrical matching of implant and surrounding bone.
