Development of Personalized Annuloplasty Rings: Combination of CT Images and CAD-CAM Tools

作者：Diaz Lantada Andres; Del Valle Fernandez Raquel; Lafont Morgado Pilar; Munoz Garcia Julio; Munoz Sanz Jose Luis; Manuel Munoz Guijosa Juan; Echavarri Otero Javier

来源：Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2010, 38(2): 280-290.

DOI：10.1007/s10439-009-9805-z

• Medical imaging
• Annuloplasty
• Mitral valve insufficiency
• CAD-CAM technologies
• Rapid prototyping technologies
• Personalized implants and prostheses

Although the use of personalized annuloplasty rings manufactured for each patient according to the size and morphology of their valve complex could be beneficial for the treatment of mitral insufficiency, this possibility has been limited for reasons of timelines and costs as well as for design and manufacturing difficulties, as has been the case with other personalized implant and prosthetic developments. However, the present quality of medical image capture equipment together with the benefits to be had from computer-aided design and manufacturing technologies (CAD-CAM) and the capabilities furnished by rapid prototyping technologies, present new opportunities for a personalized response to the development of implants and prostheses, the social impact of which could turn out to be highly positive. This paper sets out a personalized development of an annuloplasty ring based on the combined use of information from medical imaging, from CAD-CAM design programs and prototype manufacture using rapid prototyping technologies.

• 出版日期2010-2