Integrated Reconstruction
After working at medical modeling, a company that uses medical images to create patient specific surgical plans, tactile anatomical models, and surface matching cutting guides, I conceptualized an improved method of surgical reconstruction.
In this process, patient specific three dimensional models based on medical images would be created from established image processing techniques. These models would be used to produce patient specific titanium structures via electron beam melting (A), that would serve as a graft for recently developed bone cement (B). The structures could be manufactured and produced in such a way as to include artificial blood vessels, soft tissue growth factors or porcine stem cells (C), and could eventually be developed to be an implantable reconstructive figure (D), offering greater integrative capacity and a decreased risk for patient rejection.
In this process, patient specific three dimensional models based on medical images would be created from established image processing techniques. These models would be used to produce patient specific titanium structures via electron beam melting (A), that would serve as a graft for recently developed bone cement (B). The structures could be manufactured and produced in such a way as to include artificial blood vessels, soft tissue growth factors or porcine stem cells (C), and could eventually be developed to be an implantable reconstructive figure (D), offering greater integrative capacity and a decreased risk for patient rejection.