Title :
Magnetic resonance microimaging in the measurement of the ossicular chain for finite element modelling [in prosthesis design]
Author :
Abel, E.W. ; Lord, R.M. ; Mills, R.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Dundee Univ., UK
fDate :
29 Oct-1 Nov 1998
Abstract :
Finite element analysis is being used to conduct vibrational studies on different configurations of physiological ossicular chain reconstruction, for experimental evaluation. In this work, magnetic resonance microimaging (MRM) has been used to measure and obtain the geometry of the ossicles for the finite element model. The techniques used to measure and construct the finite element model are described
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; ear; edge detection; finite element analysis; medical image processing; physiological models; prosthetics; rendering (computer graphics); solid modelling; contour tracing; edge detection; finite element analysis; magnetic resonance microimaging; middle ear prosthesis; ossicles geometry; physiological ossicular chain reconstruction; solid model; surface rendering; vibrational studies; voxel data set; Biomedical measurements; Biomembranes; Ear; Finite element methods; Geometry; Humans; Magnetic resonance; Prosthetics; Shape measurement; Solid modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5164-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1998.746166
