Materialise new achievement

Materialise, a Belgian company founded in 1991 and a pioneer actor in additive manufacturing all around the world. The company is active in many domains, especially in the medical sector. It concentrates on the research and development of solutions for the transfer of data to additive manufacturing machines. Materialise works with surgeons in order to improve medical solutions and the software they provide is powering new innovations in biomedical research.

Its latest achievement was made in Belgium with an orthopaedic surgeon, Roger Jaeken who has successfully performed the first total knee surgery that was pre-planned by means of the Materialise X-ray knee guide solution. Materialise reached to turn 2D X-ray images into 3D information and solutions through CT and MRI based knee guide technology. This achievement will allow the work from X-ray images to be more efficient. Therefore patients would not have to undergo some much time on CT or MRI scan. As a recall CT scan is used to view bone injuries, diagnosing lung, chest problems and detecting cancers and often used in emergency rooms as it takes 5 minutes. While MR scan is used to examine soft tissue in ligament, tendon injuries, brain tumours and take around 30 and 45 minutes. 

Materialise action on medical sector is divided on three departments, the biomedical engineering software and services, the surgical solutions for orthopaedics surgeons and the cranio-maxillofacial surgical solutions. 

Sources:

http://www.materialise.com  

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