2009.06.30

31A, Eigineering 2nd Bld, Hongo Campus

Dr. Marco Viceconti

   Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli
   Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute

Abstract:

The original HipOp surgical planner for total hip replacement was
released on 1999 by small group of researchers born out of the
collaboration between the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, the CINECA
supercomputing centre, and the University of Bologna. Initially
intended as a research tool to capture surgical variability, HipOp
quickly become the CT-based pre-operative planning environment of
choice for many surgeons in Europe and in Japan. Today, when the next
release of HipOp (version 3.0) is in preparation, it is the right time
to discuss this 10-years experience, and to see how the original idea
is going to evolve in the next years in relation to the new generation
of patient-specific modelling technologies, that should add to the
anatomical planning a new dimension: functional outcome prediction.
The seminar will introduce the HipOp system and its fundamental
philosophy, and will summarise the extensive validation work that has
been done over the years on this planning software. Then, we shall
present the next version of the software, and will discuss how recent
research achievements could be translated into the program in future
versions.

Schedule: 15:00 ~ 17:00 Tuesday 30th June, 2009

Place: 31A, Engineering 2nd Bld, Hongo Campus