Matheon A17
Computational Surgery Planning
Description
This is a joint project with the work group Medical Planning (project CAS-OMS).
Individualized therapies, in particular surgical interventions, require detailed preoperative planning. We address two such areas: bone implant design and osteotomic surgery.
Bone Implant Design
Congenital malformations or trauma-related defects of facial bones are often corrected by patient-specific implants to substitute or complement bone structures. The implant's shape and position affects the soft tissue and hence the visual appearance of the patient. Thus, implant formation and placement are of utmost importance for the final outcome of rehabilitative facial surgery. The shape of an implant is typically customized individually during the operation, which is a tedious and time consuming process. A preoperative design of implants using CAD methods has the potential to shorten operation time, and is becoming more and more relevant.
Closely related to this problem is the surgical restoration of a fractured orbit (eye socket). This is achieved by insertion of titanium meshes that are manually bent to optimally restore the optical axis. The current state of the art of planning neglects normal asymmetries as well as soft tissue volume within the eye socket, and postoperative results are often unsatisfactory. A promising approach would be to determine the required shape of the underlying implant by optimizing the position and orientation of the eye ball resulting from the soft tissue deformation.
Osteotomic Surgery
Congenital or trauma-related deformations of the lower extremities can frequently be corrected by osteotomic surgery. There, a long bone is cut and reset at an angle. Such a change to the mechanical functioning of the musculoskeletal system can have detrimental long-term effects, which need to be assessed beforehand. The choice of surgical procedure today still relies largely on the experience of the surgeon. A simulation of the mechanics of the musculoskeletal system would provide valuable additional information.
Further information is available in the detailed project description.
Members
Sebastian Götschel
Lars Lubkoll
Jonathan Youett (FU Berlin)
Stefan Zachow
Student Members
Responsible
Peter Deuflhard
Ralf Kornhuber (FU Berlin)
Oliver Sander (FU Berlin)
Martin Weiser
Partners
Medical University Vienna/Austria, Department of Cranio-, Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery (Rolf Ewers)
Funding
DFG Research Center Matheon "Mathematics for key technologies"
Duration
06/2010 - 05/2014