Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription or Fee Access

Femur 3D Reconstruction from MR images

A. NACHOUR, L. OUZIZI, Y. AOURA

Abstract


Medical practice and life sciences take full advantage of progress in engineering disciplines, in particular the computer assisted placement technique in hip surgery. This paper describes a three dimensions (3D) model reconstruction approach from a sequence of magnetic resonance images (MRI) of human femur. This approach based in two steps: contour-detection and surface reconstruction provides digital 3D shape of the femur recognized by all CAD software. This model gives possibility to determine the bone axis with a good accuracy measurement of implant alignment during hip resurfacing or total hip arthroplasty, thereby reducing the risk of component mal-positioning and femoral neck notching.

Keywords


MRI; 3D reconstruction; femur; edge-detection.

Full Text:

PDF


Disclaimer/Regarding indexing issue:

We have provided the online access of all issues and papers to the indexing agencies (as given on journal web site). It’s depend on indexing agencies when, how and what manner they can index or not. Hence, we like to inform that on the basis of earlier indexing, we can’t predict the today or future indexing policy of third party (i.e. indexing agencies) as they have right to discontinue any journal at any time without prior information to the journal. So, please neither sends any question nor expects any answer from us on the behalf of third party i.e. indexing agencies.Hence, we will not issue any certificate or letter for indexing issue. Our role is just to provide the online access to them. So we do properly this and one can visit indexing agencies website to get the authentic information. Also: DOI is paid service which provided by a third party. We never mentioned that we go for this for our any journal. However, journal have no objection if author go directly for this paid DOI service.