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A new method for creating unambiguous and complete boundary representation solid models with a hybrid polygonal/nonuniform rational B spline representation was developed and tested using computed tomography scans of the wrist. Polygon surface approximation was applied to a sequence of parallel planar outlines of individual bone elements in the wrist. An automated technique for the transformation of edge contours into solid models was implemented. This was performed using a custom batch file command sequence generator coupled to a commercially available mechanical computer-aided design and engineering software system known as I-DEAS (Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Milford, OH). This transformation software allows the use of biomedical scan slice data with a solid modeler.
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Supported in part by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
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Ho, C.M.W., Vannier, M.W. & Bresina, S.J. Automated solid models from serial section images. J Digit Imaging 5, 126–133 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03167837
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