{"id":1741,"date":"2017-08-02T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:27:35","slug":"medical-implant-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/medical-implant-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical implant testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X-ray microCT is nondestructive and therefore is used for testing produced parts for porosity or inclusions (defects) and sometimes for wall thickness or deviation from CAD design. All these types of analysis can be used to assess a part before implanting it into a patient. We provided this service for a recent implant patient who received an additive manufactured jawbone implant. This story once again shows the great advanced that are being made in additive manufacturing, and the combination with microCT technology is a great match. This story was aired on Carte Blanche, and can be watched here (which is not for sensitive viewers):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/3d-face-implants\/\">https:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/3d-face-implants\/<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1748\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/design-of-jaw-implant-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/design-of-jaw-implant-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/design-of-jaw-implant-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/design-of-jaw-implant-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/design-of-jaw-implant.jpg 1763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nThe images and analysis of this implant is shown here (also two videos):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/14062017_01-implant-3.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1744\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/14062017_01-implant-3.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video downloads for CT analysis of this implant:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1745\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1745\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1745\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/medical-implant-slice-1024x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/medical-implant-slice-1024x381.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/medical-implant-slice-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/medical-implant-slice-768x286.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">no defects found<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/implant-wall-thickness.wmv\">implant wall thickness<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2017\/08\/rotation-2.wmv\">rotation 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-ray microCT is nondestructive and therefore is used for testing produced parts for porosity or inclusions (defects) and sometimes for wall thickness or deviation from CAD design. All these types of analysis can be used to assess a part before implanting it into a patient. We provided this service for a recent implant patient who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/medical-implant-testing\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9533,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55922,25275,41653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrial-inspection","category-medical","category-materials-metal","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}