Cranioplasty prosthesis manufacturing based on reverse engineering technology

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chrzan, Robert ^a   Urbanik, Andrzej ^a   Karbowski, Krzysztof ^b   Moskała, Marek ^a   Polak, Jarosław ^a   Pyrich, Marek ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; CT; Rapid prototyping; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

POLYESTER; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84855281422     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/msm.882186     Document Type: Article

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