Rapid, customized bone prosthesis
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1. A method for fabricating an implantable device, the method comprising:
- fabricating an approximate replica of bone by sequentially solidifying adjoining, cross-sectional intervals of a fluid material along an axis.
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Prosthetic bone implants are fabricated to approximately replicate a patient'"'"'s original bone. Medical computer aided imaging techniques are applied to generate a data base representing the size and shape of the original bone in a three dimensional coordinate system. The implantable replica is fabricated using the data base and free form manufacturing to sequentially solidify adjoining, cross-sectional intervals of a fluid material. Appropriate fluid materials include ceramic particles which may be selectively bonded by sintering or bonding with a polymer, and a monomer which is polymerized at selected regions by an incident laser beam.
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1. A method for fabricating an implantable device, the method comprising:
fabricating an approximate replica of bone by sequentially solidifying adjoining, cross-sectional intervals of a fluid material along an axis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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