Patent ID: 8473305

Claim:
A method for manufacturing an implant for a specific patient, comprising: accessing a data file including a pre-operative plan of the patient with a handheld device, the pre-operative plan including a three-dimensional image of the patient's un-resected distal femoral bone reconstructed from two-dimensional medical imaging scans of the patient's knee joint and including a planned resection plane corresponding to a planned femoral knee implant location for the femoral bone of the patient; viewing on the display of the handheld device the three-dimensional image of the patient's distal femoral bone with the planned resection plane; modifying the image of the femoral bone on the display of the handheld device by removing from the image of the distal femoral bone a portion of a bone protrusion associated with an edge of the planned resection plane by providing inputs to the handheld device; moving on the image of the distal femoral bone a visual slider associated with the edge of the planned resection plane to control removal of the image of the protrusion by providing inputs to the handheld device; selecting on the display a femoral knee implant corresponding to the modified image of the femoral bone; saving an edited pre-operative plan associated with the provided inputs to the handheld device and the modified image of the femoral bone; transmitting the edited pre-operative plan to an implant manufacturer; and requesting manufacture of the femoral knee implant according to the edited preoperative plan and the modified image of the distal femoral bone.