Craniofacial Surgery Simulation | Planning
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Craniofacial Area
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Advancements in physical modeling techniques for organic tissue have created an opportunity to introduce standard engineering approaches to medicine. Of the several alternatives, CAEbridge chose to collaborate with eminent figures in the plastic surgery community to erect a product for craniofacial surgery. The craniofacial area is the portion of the body that includes the base of the skull, the facial skeleton, the underlying soft tissues and the scalp. Craniofacial surgery involves repairing injury based damages, birth deformities and abnormal growths such as tumors. |
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The CAEbridge/CranioSim surgery simulation and planning software tool which will allow the surgeon to
The application areas will include reconstructive as well as aesthetic procedures. The product goal is to serve as a user-friendly and predictive tool that will reduce risk, cost, distress and need for secondary surgeries. |
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In the work flow, the surgeon will upload the MRI/CT scan data for the patient's head as input and automatically create a three-dimensional representation of facial bones and overlying soft tissue envelope. With convenient controls, he will be able to simulate the surgical procedure by performing "virtual osteotomies" and assess the differential effects of bony movements on the overlying soft tissue and skin. |
Surgery Simulation
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There are two major differentiating factors for the software. The first is that it calculates soft-tissue deformations / movements using advanced physics models and geometry manipulation techniques. Hence, it represents a true prediction process in contrast with the existing 2D photo-based applications on the market. As the second differentiator, this product is a self-contained software solution requiring only a standard personal computer as hardware. The alternative solutions in the market tend to require additional non-standard 3D scanning hardware and control devices that drive the costs up significantly.
If you are a practitioner in the plastic surgery arena, we are very interested in gathering your opinion on the merit of our product. To fill out a short survey of 10 questions, please follow this link. |
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