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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2002
Applicants:
Keita Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Shiotani, Tokyo, JP;
Motomasa Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Takamitsu Yoshida, Saitama-ken, JP;
Inventors:
Keita Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Shiotani, Tokyo, JP;
Motomasa Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Takamitsu Yoshida, Saitama-ken, JP;
Assignee:
PENTAX Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/02 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An implant designing method to be applied to a body of bone which has a bone deficient portion, wherein the bone being substantially symmetric with respect to a plane of symmetry, includes generating three-dimensional data of the bone based on a plurality of pieces of tomographic data of the bone, and estimating a shape of a bone that is to exist at the bone deficient portion using part of the three-dimensional data corresponding to a symmetrical part of the bone deficient portion.