Computer-aided position planning of miniplates to treat facial bone defects.

In this contribution, a software system for computer-aided position planning of miniplates to treat facial bone defects is proposed. The intra-operatively used bone plates have to be passively adapted on the underlying bone contours for adequate bone fragment stabilization. However, this procedure c...

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Main Authors: Jan Egger, Jürgen Wallner, Markus Gall, Xiaojun Chen, Katja Schwenzer-Zimmerer, Knut Reinbacher, Dieter Schmalstieg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5560576?pdf=render