dc.contributor |
Université libre de Bruxelles |
dc.contributor |
Innocenti, Bernardo |
dc.contributor |
Nonclerq, Antoine |
dc.contributor.author |
Romero Sánchez, José Javier |
dc.date |
2015 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/100006 |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
dc.publisher |
Université Libre Bruxelles |
dc.rights |
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.subject |
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria biomèdica |
dc.subject |
Artificial knee |
dc.subject |
Genolls artificials |
dc.title |
Computational medical imaging for total knee arthroplasty using visualitzation toolkit |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
dc.description.abstract |
This project is presented as a Master Thesis in the field of Civil Engineering, Biomedical specialization. As the
project of an Erasmus exchange student, this thesis has been under supervision both the Universite Livre de
Bruxelles and the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. The purpose of this thesis to put in practice all the
knowledges acquired during this Master in Industrial Engineering in UPC and to be a support for medical staff
in total knee arthoplasty procedures.
Prof. Emmanuel Thienpont has been working for years as orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital Sant Luc,
Brussels. His years of work and research have been mainly focused on Total Knee Arthroplasty or TKA. During
one of the most important steps of this procedure, the orthopaedic surgeon has to cut the head of the femur
following two perpendicular cutting planes. Nevertheless, the orientation of these planes are directly dependant
of the femur constitution.
This Master Thesis has been conceived in order to offer the surgeon a tool to determine the proper direction
planes in a previous step before the surgical procedure. This project pretends to give the surgeon an openfree
computational platform to access to patient geometrical and physiological information before involving the
subject in any invasive procedure. |