Personalized creation from medical imaging

US10751943B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

• Sasa Grbic · Plainsboro, US
• Michael Suehling · Erlangen, DE
• Tommaso Mansi · Plainsboro, US
• Ingmar Voigt · Erlangen, DE
• Razvan Ioan Ionasec · Lawrenceville, US
• Bogdan Georgescu · Plainsboro, US
• Helene C. Houle · San Jose, US
• Dorin Comaniciu · Princeton Junction, US
• Charles Florin · Lawrenceville, US
• Philipp Hoelzer · Baltimore, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 24, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 25, 2020
• Expiry date: Apr 25, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B33Y50/02
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In personalized object creation, for implants, medical imaging is used to derive a model personalized to a patient. The model may be of a dynamic structure, such as part of the cardiovascular system, and is used to print the implant itself. The model may be used to print a mold to create the implant, a scaffold on which to grow tissue, and/or tissue itself. In another or additional approach, the medical imaging information is used to determine tissue properties. Differences in a material property of the anatomy is mapped to different materials used by a multi-material 3D printer, resulting in a printed object reflecting the size, shape, and/or other material property of the anatomy of the patient.