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Yorkyshef asked a question on my blog that I thought would be better answered here.

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I am an FEA engineer carrying out a project on spinal injury with prosthesis implants. at the moment I am struggling to find out a way of converting a CT Scan images of the spines into a 3D model for use as a FE model. the geometry will be meshed and used for the analysis.

QUESTION. DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A WAY OF CONVERTING CT SCAN IMAGES INTO A 3D DRAWING OR MODELS FOR FEA ANALYSIS?

Any info or help would be gratefully received.
Best regards to all.
 
Posts: 41 | Location: Cleveland, Ohio | Registered: 13 September 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Mr. Yorkyshef:

Materialse Inc. is one of few companies that has developed software for converting CT scans into 3d models. Reach them at www.materialise.com
-Paul Dvorak


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Posts: 24 | Registered: 14 September 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Mr. Yorkyshef:

I've asked our contact at Mathematica software to help answer your question. We did a story on how researches at Eindhoven U. used special algorithms and Mathematica in developing custom end plates for spinal prosthesis devices. The company is going to e-mail the professor and find out how the researchers convert scans to FE models. Stay tuned!
 
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Mr. Yorkyshev,
Mimics is the software from Materialise which is an interface from medical images (CT/MRI) to (among other links) FEA/CFD. Feel free to send all your questions to mimics@materialise.be
Kind regards,
Maarten De Vleeschouwer
 
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Whatever the method would be, it sounds very difficult.


<a href="http://www.nenastran.com">NEiNastran.com</a>: <a href="http://www.nenastran.com">FEMAP</a> and <a href="http://www.nenastran.com/engineeringsoftware/mechanical.php">Engineering Analysis Software</a>
 
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<a href="http://www.nenastran.com">NEiNastran.com</a>: <a href="http://www.nenastran.com">FEMAP</a> and <a href="http://www.nenastran.com/engineeringsoftware/mechanical.php">Engineering Analysis Software</a>
 
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On the contrary, try Mimics out its very easy to create solids from CT, MRI is another story
 
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