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First Claim
1. A method of generating a patient-specific prosthetic implant, the method comprising:
- generating a three-dimensional electronic representation of a human anatomical feature of a unique patient;
identifying one or more representative surface curvature features on the three-dimensional electronic representation; and
comparing fit of the identified one or more representative surface curvature features with one or more corresponding surface curvature features of a virtual implant template of the human anatomical feature selected from a database of virtual implant templates, andassociating the three-dimensional electronic representation with the selected virtual implant template.
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Abstract
A method of generating a patient specific prosthetic implant is described, which includes: generating a three dimensional electronic representation of a human anatomical feature of a unique patient; identifying one or more representative surface curvature features on the three dimensional electronic representation; and associating the three dimensional electronic representation with a virtual implant template of the human anatomical feature selected from a database of virtual implant templates, and comparing fit of the identified representative surface curvature features of the three dimensional electronic representation with corresponding surface curvature features of the virtual implant template. The virtual implant template is selected to have the most similar corresponding surface curvature features.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of generating a patient-specific prosthetic implant, the method comprising:
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generating a three-dimensional electronic representation of a human anatomical feature of a unique patient; identifying one or more representative surface curvature features on the three-dimensional electronic representation; and comparing fit of the identified one or more representative surface curvature features with one or more corresponding surface curvature features of a virtual implant template of the human anatomical feature selected from a database of virtual implant templates, and associating the three-dimensional electronic representation with the selected virtual implant template. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of generating a patient-specific prosthetic implant, the method comprising:
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generating a three-dimensional electronic representation of a human anatomical feature of a unique patient; identifying one or more representative surface curvature features on the three-dimensional electronic representation; and associating the three-dimensional electronic representation with a selected virtual implant template of the human anatomical feature selected from a database of virtual implant templates, and comparing fit of the identified one or more representative surface curvature features of the three-dimensional electronic representation with corresponding surface curvature features of the virtual implant template, the selected virtual implant template selected to have the most similar corresponding surface curvature features.
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