Method for assisting in determining strength of fixing craniofacial surgery patch and computer using the same

• Main Authors: YAO CHIH-MIN, HSIAO HUNG-TA, LEE MING-HSIAO, WANG SHENGUAN, LEE LUNGNG, CHEN SHOU-I
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.10.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS

A computer for assisting in determining the strength of fixing a craniofacial surgery patch comprises a storage device for storing a medical image and a central processing unit, the central processing unit carry out a method for assisting in determining the strength of fixing a craniofacial surgery patch. The method includes obtaining a medical image; establishing a skull model according to the medical image; receiving a patch setting command, and disposing a patch model on the skull model according to the patch setting command; generating an internal grid mesh data of the skull model disposed with the patch model; executing a biomechanical simulation of a patch structural strength according to the skull model disposed with the patch model, the internal grid mesh data and a boundary condition; and providing a stress distribution, a strain distribution or a displacement distribution of the patch model to assist in determining.