The objective of this project is to improve traditional medical implants that exist on the market thanks to the implementation of additive technology, assisted by Virtual Reality, and reticular design in the medical implant production chain.
In this sense, a personalization of the product would be achieved and as a result, the quality of life of the people would be improved, even allowing the surgeon to simulate in a virtual environment the adaptation of the implant to the patient’s bone structure, but on that ground. The costs associated with these implants will be reduced to the same extent as the time professionals need to prepare for this process.
Within the project, ARSOFT works on developing a simulator that allows medical professionals to incorporate personalized prostheses into patients and work with a 3D vision of their CT scan automatically segmented by the system. This process is achieved thanks to the application of 3D printing technologies and Virtual Reality. In this context, ARSOFT’s mission is to introduce the visualization and placement of an implant in 3D through Virtual Reality. It is a solution designed for the study of medical images using XR (Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality) technologies. Through the segmentation and automatic generation of 3D models,? NextMed?helps medical professionals to study and manipulate the 3D model of organs that need to intervene, thus increasing the precision and safety of the surgeon.
The Impulso Phase II project also collaborates with other companies such as Cubicoff, Grupo Sevilla Control y Element, as well as the Andalucía Aerospace Clúster business group.
- The main activities that are being carried out in this phase II of the Impulso project are as follows:
- Customized design of a titanium prosthesis based on a real spinal bone structure.
- Application of reticular design techniques (Lattice), with the objective of reducing the weight of the implant and improving its mechanical resistance.
- Manufacture of titanium implants by 3D printing and subsequent post-processing (thermal, mechanized and superficial treatment) to guarantee the optimal properties of the implant according to the requirements defined by the medical experts who collaborated on the project.
- Carrying out static, fatigue and superficial tests, in addition to applying virtual reality techniques in operations in laboratory environments.
- Simulation of implant surgery with a recreation of a patient’s anatomy obtained automatically from your Computerized Tomography, and using the 3D model of the implant designed for that patient. The surgeon can also plan the surgery to later access this plan during the surgery.
- Validation of the results and conclusions of the advantages that can lead to bringing this disruptive technology to traditional implants currently used.
The Impulso project is subsidized by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism within the program for Agrupaciones Empresariales Innovadoras (AEI) and forms part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan through the Next Generation EU funds of the European Union.
