Graphics hardware helps spine surgery
In a procedure intended to reduce back pain, surgeons remove the disc between affected vertebrae and stabilize the spine using bone grafts or metal plates and screws. Although the operation works, it tends to accelerate arthritis in the rest of the spine...
Your bone will break here, says simulation
A European consortium aims to develop more precise methods for predicting patient-specific risks of osteoporosis and bone fracture. The Osteoporotic Virtual...
Is that tumor growing? Software tells
A German-based company, Definiens with U.S. operations (Morristown, N.J.), has devised software that examines MRI or CT data and builds 3D models of tumors, changing organs, and tissues of interest...
Refining the heart model
An animated 3D CAD model of the human heart put together by a team of U.K. doctors is so realistic its four chambers beat in the same asymmetrical rhythm as a real heart. The model, HeartWorks, should improve doctor training. ...
How Graphics Hardware Helps Spine Surgery
A detailed finite-element model of the human skeleton may now let researchers estimate the strain put on healthy vertebrae during back surgery...
Is that tumor growing? Software tells
A German company has devised software that examines MRI or CT data and builds 3D models of tumors, changing organs, and tissues of interest...
Refining the beating heart model
An animated 3D CAD model of the human heart put together by a team of U.K. doctors is so realistic its four chambers beat in the same asymmetrical rhythm as a real heart...
Paper examines software solutions for medical-device developers
The design, development, and manufacturing of a medical device are increasingly difficult endeavors as competition grows stronger and regulatory constraints broaden....
Prototypes for tools and for patients
Rapid prototyping in the form of both additive and subtractive technologies is being put to good use in operating rooms as well as design labs. For example,...
Computerized pacifier helps preemies feed
Up to one-third of the more than 600,000 premature infants born in the U.S. each year have feeding problems because their brains can't coordinate sucking,...
