A Dynamic Anatomical Ultrasonography Workflow To Advance Personalised Lower-Limb Prosthetics

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Langton, Christian
Perevoshchikova, Nataliya
Feih, Stefanie
Lloyd, David
Barrett, Rodney
Frossard, Laurent
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2022
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INTRODUCTION: Our aim is to optimise the residuum health of individuals suffering from lower-limb loss through computational simulations of a 'Digital Twin'; that will facilitate the design of optimized 3D-printed prosthetic attachments. Dynamic Anatomical Ultrasonography (DAU) will provide a primary input into the computational simulations, facilitating 4D-tracking of skin/fat, fat/muscle, and muscle/bone tissue interfaces throughout a residuum during ambulation. METHOD: With reference to Figure 1, a DAU Workflow has been created to facilitate the development of novel instrumentation and analyses. For DAU analysis, A-scan signals are recorded over a defined time from a series of ultrasound transducers. The proprietary format datafile is interrogated utilizing a Matlab program to provide plots of various tissueinterface depths verses recording time. Proof-of Concept analysis has been performed on a replica skinfat-muscle tissue test sample, shown in Figure 2. CONCLUSIONS: A DAU Workflow has been developed. This is being implemented utilising a CT scan of an asymptomatic subject fitted with a pseudo-socket; with image analysis, CAD and 3D-printing facilitating creation of a bespoke device for DAU assessment in-vivo.

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The 13th Australasian Biomechanics Conference (ABC13)

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© 2022 Australian and New Zealand Society of Biomechanics. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.

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Biomedical engineering

Allied health and rehabilitation science

Artificial limbs

Bone-anchored prosthesis

Osseointegration

Prosthetics

Amputation

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Langton, C; Perevoshchikova, N; Feih, S; Lloyd, D; Barrett, R; Frossard, L, A Dynamic Anatomical Ultrasonography Workflow To Advance Personalised Lower-Limb Prosthetics, The 13th Australasian Biomechanics Conference (ABC13), 2022, pp. 74-74