Computer-Aided Socket Design For Amputees

Aleksey Novicov; James Foort

doi:10.1117/12.966033

12 July 1983 Computer-Aided Socket Design For Amputees

Aleksey Novicov, James Foort

Proceedings Volume 0361, Biostereometrics '82; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.966033
Event: 26th Annual Technical Symposium, 1982, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The fitting of sockets and artificial legs to amputees' stumps is a difficult and lengthy process that can take numerous trials. It has been proposed that most amputees can be fitted with a standard socket shape with minimal changes to the socket. To perform this task, a procedure is being developed at the Medical Engineering Resource Unit for computer aided socket design for amputees. An interactive PASCAL program, operating on a microcomputer, will prompt the operator (or prosthetist) by asking him to determine the condition of the stump. While the operator is inputing this information into the computer, together with a few critical anatomical measurements, a standard socket shape, viewed on the video monitor, will begin to change. Throughout the "shape fitting" procedure, the operator will have the ability to modify the socket shape on the screen with the use of a light pen. It will also be possible to view various cross-sections and different perspectives. The shape fitting procedure continues until a suitable socket shape is designed. Future efforts will focus on transferring the computer designed socket into a physical socket. The overall goal is to provide amputees with a better fit in less time and to objectify socket fitting so that new prosthetists may be easily taught.

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Aleksey Novicov and James Foort "Computer-Aided Socket Design For Amputees", Proc. SPIE 0361, Biostereometrics '82, (12 July 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.966033

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