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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2020
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore, SG;
Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics Ag, Zug, CH;
Brian W. McKinnon, Arlington, TN (US);
Ruxandra Cristiana Marinescu Tanasoca, Memphis, TN (US);
Randy C. Winebarger, Southaven, MS (US);
William L. Bowers, Jr., Southaven, MS (US);
James Bennett Wiebe, III, Coldwater, MS (US);
Nathaniel Milton Lenz, Germantown, TN (US);
Sean M. Haddock, Germantown, TN (US);
Ryan Lloyd Landon, Olive Branch, MS (US);
Shawn P. McGuan, San Clemente, CA (US);
Constantinos Nikou, Monroeville, PA (US);
Elizabeth Duxbury, San Clemente, CA (US);
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Zug, CH;
Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A method for creating a patient-specific surgical plan includes receiving one or more pre-operative images of a patient having one or more infirmities affecting one or more anatomical joints, three-dimensional anatomical model of the one or more anatomical joints is created based on the one or more pre-operative images. One or more transfer functions and the three-dimensional anatomical model are used to identify a patient-specific implantation geometry that corrects the one or more infirmities. The transfer functions model performance of the one or more anatomical joints as a function of anatomical geometry and anatomical implantation features, surgical plan comprising the patient-specific implantation geometry may then be displayed.