Patent ID: 8855389

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for application of finite element analysis of bone-implant systems evaluating a biomechanical performance of each bone-implant model of a set of bone-implant models for an implant implanted into a bone structure of a patient, the method comprising: receiving a set of patient-specific data of the bone structure; creating, for each bone-implant model of the set of bone-implant models, an associated patient-specific bone-implant finite element model representing at least a portion of the bone structure based on said set of patient-specific data, wherein said patient-specific bone-implant finite element model is created in part from a pre-constructed non-patient-specific bone-implant mesh; and determining an implant result for each particular bone-implant model of the set of bone-implant models based upon a finite element analysis of said patient-specific bone-implant finite element model associated with said particular bone-implant model.