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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2010
Howard D. Dean, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Krishnamoorthy Subramanyan, Palatine, IL (US);
Alexandros T. Moullas, Thessaloniki, GR;
Robert A. Ratcheson, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Howard D. Dean, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Krishnamoorthy Subramanyan, Palatine, IL (US);
Alexandros T. Moullas, Thessaloniki, GR;
Robert A. Ratcheson, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Osteoplastics, LLC, Pepper Pike, OH (US);
Abstract
Determining a shape of a medical device to be implanted into a subject produces an image including a defective portion and a non-defective portion of a surface of a tissue of interest included in the subject. The tissue of interest is segmented within the image. A template, representing a normative shape of an external anatomical surface of the tissue of interest, is superimposed to span the defective portion. An external shape of an implant, is determined as a function of respective shapes of the defective portion as seen in the template, for repairing the defective portion.