Patent ID: 11872123
Assignee: GROWNVALVE GMBH
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 3:
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the mold for an individually personalized cardiac valve prosthesis is manufactured by a method comprising the following steps:
a) providing or obtaining 3-D imaging data of an impaired cardiac valve of an individual by an appropriate imaging method,
b) 3-D reconstructing the 3-D imaging data, thereby at least partially correcting impairments of the impaired cardiac valve so as to obtain reconstructed 3-D imaging data representing a virtual cardiac valve having a performance that better corresponds to the performance of a non-impaired cardiac valve than the performance of the impaired cardiac valve does,
c) using the reconstructed 3-D imaging data to generate a virtual 3-D mold for an individually personalized cardiac valve prosthesis, and
d) using the virtual 3-D mold to manufacture a real mold for an individually personalized cardiac valve prosthesis.