In joint replacement, failures and patient dissatisfaction continue to be reported due to non-fully anatomy-based prostheses. This can now be improved by proper prosthesis design personalization, thanks to the recent progresses in advanced additive manufacturing, subject-specific joint modelling, and, especially, in medical imaging analysis. As for the latter, a number of tools exist, both for standard and innovative computer-tomography or magnetic-resonance, whose implications within personalized joint replacement are discussed here.

This presentation is part of Minisymposium “MS58 - Instruments and techniques for biomedical research (2 parts)”
organized by: Alberto Leardini (Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Functional-Clinical Evaluation of Prosthesis, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna) .

Authors:

Claudio Belvedere (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna)

Paolo Caravaggi (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna)

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

Stefano Durante (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna)

Sorin Siegler (Drexel University, Philadelphia)

Keywords:

computed tomography, computer graphics, image reconstruction, image registration, image segmentation, joint replacement, musculo-skeletal models, prosthesis design