Grid environment for fabricating custom artificial human bone

Abstract

Computer assisted instruction in biomedical engineering (BME) education has been explored and changed dramatically in decades. In this paper we presents a new educational Grid Environment for BME courses. It is designed to be suitable for supporting for the education of medical instrumentation. In emergent situation it helps students to manipulate Rapid Prototyping Machine to fabricate custom artificial human. A rapid prototyping process chain (RPPC), which combines time limits, cost of CT scans, parallelism in computer simulations and bone fabrication, was integrated as workflow in grid service. The grid involves a synthesis of coordinated examinations and large scale, parallel artificial human bones simulations. The portal at students sides need only a thin client and can be accessed by a standard web browser. To illustrate the application of our approach in the grid environment, a femur fabrication case is presented to show its fast and reliable results. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.