First attempts to 3D printing spine implants : human spine biomechanics

The purpose of this paper was to obtain and compare information about spine metrics properties and indicate of polymer materials for the manufacture of spinal implants using 3D printing. The resulting properties will allow to select the material which have similar spine metrics properties or better. The literature review will be helpful to develop methodology of 3D printing in producing implants of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs (Val). The project consists three main phases: creation a creation model which is based on generating of a 3D model (Val) discs of tomographic images spine using software specially developed for medical image processing and CAD software (Val) discs, creation of a prototype implant and performance strength tests on the obtained implant.