Patent Document ID: 20120285002
Application ID: 13106931
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A bone plate manufacturing method, comprising: an image acquisition step acquiring an original 3D craniofacial image of a patient; an image reconstruction step using an image processing system to perform image reconstruction of the original 3D craniofacial image so as to obtain a reconstructed 3D craniofacial image, wherein the image processing system comprises a plurality of mechanical data specifying mechanical parameters of various parts of a cranioface; a comparison step comparing the original 3D craniofacial image with the reconstructed 3D craniofacial image via the image processing system, and defining the image difference therebetween as a defected portion; a data retrieval step retrieving a portion of the plurality of mechanical data that corresponds to the defected portion, and defining a mechanical compensation area on the reconstructed 3D craniofacial image that compensates the portion of the plurality of mechanical data of the defected portion; a model designing step designing a bone plate mold with a thickness based on the surface shape of the mechanical compensation area; and a bone plate manufacturing step manufacturing a bone plate using the bone plate mold.