The design of orthopaedic implants and other devices such as joint prostheses etc. can now take advantage of the modern technology of addititive manufacturing. This allows full personalisation of the overall treatment, starting from medical imaging of the specific patient and going through muscolo-skeletal modelling, implant design and device fabrication. This necessarily needs a multidisciplinary approach because of the number of experts involved in this process.

This presentation is part of Minisymposium “MS70 - Innovative Challenging Applications in Imaging Sciences (2 parts)”
organized by: Roberto Mecca (University of Bologna and University of Cambridge) , Giulia Scalet (Dept. Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia) , Federica Sciacchitano (Dept. Mathematics, University of Genoa) .

Authors:

Alberto Leardini (Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Functional-Clinical Evaluation of Prosthesis, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna)

Claudio Belvedere (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna)

Paolo Caravaggi (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna)

Stefano Durante (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna)

Alessandro Fortunato (University of Bologna)

Keywords:

additive manufacturing, computed tomography, custom-made prostheses, image reconstruction, image registration, orthopaedic treatments