Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disabling disease, affecting the joints of 40% or more of the population over 60, resulting in a socioeconomic burden of approx. €6,000 million. per year in Germany alone. Joint surgery attempts to address the various disease stages, to either minimize the risk of early degeneration of the native joint, or to replace a fully degenerated joint. To prevent failures and improve surgery outcome, key facts on the mechanical conditions of the joint need to be available to the surgeon. By implementing refined image reconstruction, biomechanical modeling and analysis tools, MXL will make the dynamic joint loading and stability accessible for the planning of joint surgery in every case.

Publications

2013
A large scale finite element study of a cementless osseointegrated tibial tray Journal of Biomechanics, 46(11), pp. 1900-1906, 2013 Francis Galloway, Max Kahnt, Heiko Ramm, Peter Worsley, Stefan Zachow, Prasanth Nair, Mark Taylor BibTeX
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Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
2012
Computergestützte Planung für die individuelle Implantatversorgung Health Academy, Wolfgang Niederlag, Heinz Lemke, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hans Lehrach (Eds.), pp. 145-158, 2012 Heiko Ramm, Stefan Zachow BibTeX
Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
Feature-Preserving, Multi-Material Mesh Generation using Hierarchical Oracles Proc. MICCAI Workshop on Mesh Processing in Medical Image Analysis (MeshMed), Joshua A. Levine, Rasmus R. Paulsen, Yongjie Zhang (Eds.), pp. 101-111, Vol.7599, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012 Max Kahnt, Heiko Ramm, Hans Lamecker, Stefan Zachow BibTeX
Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
Generation of constrained high-quality multi-material tetrahedral meshes Master's thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Konrad Polthier, Hans Lamecker, Stefan Zachow (Advisors), 2012 Max Kahnt BibTeX
Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
Patientenspezifische Simulationsmodelle für die funktionelle Analyse von künstlichem Gelenkersatz Computer Aided Medical Engineering (CaMe), 3(2), pp. 30-36, 2012 Heiko Ramm, Max Kahnt, Stefan Zachow BibTeX
Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
2011
Robust and Intuitive Meshing of Bone-Implant Compounds CURAC, pp. 71-74, 2011 Max Kahnt, Francis Galloway, Heiko Seim, Hans Lamecker, Mark Taylor, Stefan Zachow BibTeX
Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
2009
Automatic Extraction of Anatomical Landmarks from Medical Image Data: An Evaluation of Different Methods Proc. of IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 538-541, 2009 Heiko Seim, Dagmar Kainmüller, Markus O. Heller, Stefan Zachow, Hans-Christian Hege BibTeX
Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
Subject-Specific Ligament Models: Towards Real-Time Simulation of the Knee Joint Proc. Computational Biomechanics for Medicine IV Workshop, pp. 107-119, 2009 Tobias Heimann, François Chung, Hans Lamecker, Hervé Delingette BibTeX
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Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
2008
CT-based patient-specific modeling of glenoid rim defects: A feasibility study AJR Am J Roentgenol, 191(5), pp. 1406-1411, 2008 Gerd Diederichs, Heiko Seim, Henning Meyer, Ahi Issever, Thomas M. Link, Ralf J. Schröder, Markus Scheibel BibTeX
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Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery
Segmentation of Bony Structures with Ligament Attachment Sites Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2008, pp. 207-211, GI Informatik aktuell, 2008 Heiko Seim, Hans Lamecker, Stefan Zachow BibTeX
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Improving Therapy Planning for Hip, Shoulder and Knee Joint Surgery