3D Printed Human Foot Splint, Designed from MRI of the Luffa Cylindrica Dried Fruit

Sergio Cerón-Escutia, Axayácatl Morales-Guadarrama, Silvia B. González-Brambila, David Vidal-García

2020

Abstract

This article presents a method to design a splint from the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of the dried fruit of a tropical plant called Luffa (Luffa cylindrica (L.) M.Roem), which shows the possibility of using synthetic forms in Nature to reproduce and apply them in the development of products, a concept known as bio-design. This fruit –similar to a cucumber-, when dried it becomes a fibrous and imbricated structure that confers interesting stiffness and lightness properties, which were used to design a splint for a human foot, different from the conventional plaster, through a reverse engineering process. Such structure was copied, with the help of a 7T MRI scanner (Magnetic Resonator of seven Tesla Varian). The images of the Luffa processed with the OSIRIX® and AMIRA® programs then converted to the STL (STereo Lithography) format for manipulated with CAD / CAM (Computer-Aided Design / Computer-Aided Manufacturing) programs. The results have been successful since it was possible to print by FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) a scale model of the splint in ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene), from a module that extracted from the MRI, which tested in a model of a human foot.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cerón-Escutia S., Morales-Guadarrama A., González-Brambila S. and Vidal-García D. (2020). 3D Printed Human Foot Splint, Designed from MRI of the Luffa Cylindrica Dried Fruit. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2020) - Volume 2: BIOIMAGING; ISBN 978-989-758-398-8, SciTePress, pages 150-155. DOI: 10.5220/0008958701500155

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bioimaging20,
author={Sergio Cerón-Escutia and Axayácatl Morales-Guadarrama and Silvia B. González-Brambila and David Vidal-García},
title={3D Printed Human Foot Splint, Designed from MRI of the Luffa Cylindrica Dried Fruit},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2020) - Volume 2: BIOIMAGING},
year={2020},
pages={150-155},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008958701500155},
isbn={978-989-758-398-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2020) - Volume 2: BIOIMAGING
TI - 3D Printed Human Foot Splint, Designed from MRI of the Luffa Cylindrica Dried Fruit
SN - 978-989-758-398-8
AU - Cerón-Escutia S.
AU - Morales-Guadarrama A.
AU - González-Brambila S.
AU - Vidal-García D.
PY - 2020
SP - 150
EP - 155
DO - 10.5220/0008958701500155
PB - SciTePress