... duties. The human body has limitations to remodel large bone and joint defects, and sometimes, it is unavoidable to insert implants (Pawelec and Planell, 2018). For bone implants to be effective, they must exhibit mechanical properties that closely resemble those of the host site, and additively...

... can be used to plan harvesting locations for creating custom rapid allograft bone implants from donor bone. An implementation of a proposed harvesting method is demonstrated, followed by a case study using subtractive rapid prototyping to harvest a bone implant from a human tibia surrogate...