28 results about "Bones head" patented technology

An intramedullary nail implant for positioning in a bone having a head and a shaft defining an intramedullary canal. The implant includes a distal portion having a shaft extending along a central axis and configured for positioning within the intramedullary canal. A proximal portion extends proximally from the distal portion. The proximal portion defines a contact surface which extends at least in part medially of the central axis such that it is configured to extend within a medial portion of the bone head. A method of implanting the nail is also provided.

To provide a bone-conduction hearing unit which is small and has low risk of providing an infection.SOLUTION: The bone-conduction hearing unit according to the present invention is a bone-conduction hearing unit buried in a scalp and includes a vibration generation unit for generating vibrations and an anchor. The bone-conduction hearing unit generates vibrations by applying a varying magnetic field from the outside of a scalp to the vibration generation unit, and transmits the vibrations to the cranial bone through the anchor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The application discloses a preparation method of an interpenetrating phase ceramic dental material and belongs to the technical field of biomedical materials. The application is based on the porous foam structure and cavity tissue of bird skeletons for biomimetic design, two kinds of biomimetic bird bone structures combining the characteristics of annular hyoid structures and cavity tissues are established, and according to the bird skull cooperative damping mechanism, a mortise and tenon structure with the characteristics of cooperative bearing and buffering is constructed, the structure has more excellent mechanical bearing performance and deformation stability compared with a traditional structure. The zirconium oxide-hydrogel interpenetrating phase material prepared by a photo-crosslinking method, the composite design of the soft phase and the hard phase material not only significantly improves the energy absorption characteristics of the material, but also effectively improves the fracture toughness of the dental material. On this basis, a functional coating is constructed on the surface of the material by using a sol-gel dip coating process, and the problems of insufficient corrosion resistance and wear resistance of the dental material in the oral environment are further solved.

The application discloses a method for locating the wing point on the body surface based on NCCT image data and belongs to the technical field of medical image processing. The method uses the NCCT sequence data of a routine image inspection at any time to reconstruct the shape of a skull, automatically and individually identifies the eyebrow bone features through corner point detection and Kmeans mean clustering, accurately determines the outer edge points of the eyebrow bone, adopts the method that the outer edge of the eyebrow bone is pushed forward to the direction of the extension line of the eyebrow bone by a curved surface distance of 3.5 cm and the midpoint of the malar arch is pushed upward by a linear distance of 4 cm, and the wing point is automatically and quickly located, which has important clinical significance.

In a method for minimizing the effects of impact forces to the skull, a headgear may be worn to restrict blood flow from one or more of the draining veins in the neck. Pressure applying pad members movably connected to the headgear may be deployed to apply pressure against the veins of the neck.

The utility model provides an upper respiratory tract simulation training model, which comprises a bottom plate, a connecting assembly and a training assembly, and is characterized in that the top of the bottom plate is fixedly connected with a first fixing block; the connecting assembly is arranged on one side of the first fixing block and comprises a chest shell, a cervical vertebra body and an occipital bone. According to the upper respiratory tract simulation training model, a real human anatomical structure is restored through the cervical vertebra body, the occipital bone, the airway, the mandible and the like, the upper respiratory tract structure is convenient to learn and understand, the structure part is provided with a normal version and a lesion version, the mandible shell can be pulled outwards, an instrument can enter a correct position conveniently, and the training efficiency is improved. Under the action of a first fixing block and a bottom plate, actual operation training of a laryngeal mask and a laryngoscope is facilitated, under the action of a second fixing block and the bottom plate, an occipital bone, a front skull, a cervical vertebra body and the like are conveniently driven to be subjected to angle fixation, body position adjustment needed during operation is facilitated, and use flexibility is enhanced.

A mobile bearing prosthetic implant may include a fossa implant seated in the fossa cavity of the skull and secured to the zygomatic arch. The fossa implant may define a primary recess constructed and arranged to mimic the articular eminence of the temporal bone such that a floating bearing connected to a ramus implant may translate along the original path that the condylar head would take during movement of the jaw. The floating bearing may be constructed and arranged to move from the first jaw angle recess to the second jaw angle recess and is positionable therebetween such that a longitudinal axis of the floating bearing is perpendicular to the direction of movement of the floating bearing within the fossa implant.

The invention relates to the field of medical education, in particular to a high-simulation temporal bone anatomy simulator which comprises a half-dissected skull base. The operation hole is formed in the temporal bone position; the outer ear unit is detachably arranged on the operation hole; the inner ear unit is arranged on the inner side of the skull base and located at the operation hole, the inner ear unit is detachably arranged in the skull base, the inner ear unit is formed by matching a bone body module and a soft body module, the bone body module is made of a hard material, and the soft body module is made of a flexible material; the inner ear unit is internally provided with an in-ear pipeline for simulating a blood vessel; a hydraulic system used for supplying liquid to the pipeline is arranged in the skull base. The technical problem that existing temporal bone dissection is difficult to carry out surgical operation practice is solved.

This invention discloses a teaching device for manual reduction of temporomandibular joint dislocation, comprising a base plate on which a lifting and adjusting assembly is mounted. A skull model is mounted on top of the lifting and adjusting assembly. The skull model has a temporalis muscle spring assembly between the temporal bone and coronoid process, a masseter muscle spring assembly between the zygomatic arch and the lateral surface of the lower border of the mandibular angle, a medial pterygoid muscle spring assembly between the posteromedial aspect of the maxillary tuberosity and the medial surface of the lower border of the mandibular angle, and a lateral pterygoid muscle spring assembly between the articular pterygoid fossa and the lateral pterygoid plate at the condylar neck. In this invention, the skull model can rotate on top of the lifting and adjusting assembly, allowing the device to visually display the temporomandibular joint and the mandibular elevating muscles closely related to joint dislocation, simulating the movement of muscles inside the oral cavity, thus realistically simulating the force resistance against the mandibular elevating muscles during temporomandibular joint reduction. Furthermore, the device allows for angle adjustment to accommodate students in different positions.

To provide a pillow capable of maintaining the head in a posture effective for skull correction.SOLUTION: A skull-correcting pillow 1 comprises: a pair of support sections 21, 31 that support areas corresponding to the surroundings of the left and right mastoid processes of the head of a supine subject; a pair of action sections 22, 32 that act for sandwiching, therebetween from left and right sides, areas corresponding to the vicinity of the boundary between the parietal bone and the left and right temporal bones of the head; and support mechanisms 23, 24, 42, 33, 34, 43 that variably support the relative positions and postures of the pair of support sections 21, 31 and the pair of action sections 22, 32.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

An apparatus and methods are provided for a dermal cap for resurfacing a metatarsal head of the foot or a metacarpal head of the hand. The dermal cap comprises an outer surface having a convex shape, an inner surface having a concave shape, and a rounded peripheral surface joining the inner surface and the outer surface. The inner surface can be placed onto a bone head such that the outer surface provides a bone head surface resembling the original articular cartilage. The outer surface effectively restores the articular cartilage and thus relieves pain and facilitates better joint function. The dermal cap can be formed by stretching it over a rounded mandrel shaped similarly to the size and anatomy of the bone head to be treated. The dermal cap can be freeze-dried on the rounded mandrel to set the desired anatomy of the dermal cap.

A bone conduction hearing-aid unit embedded under a scalp. The bone conduction hearing-aid unit includes a vibration generator configured to generate vibration, and an anchor. A magnetic field frequency is applied to the vibration generator from the outside of the scalp to generate vibration. The vibration is transmitted to a skull via the anchor.

A bone conduction hearing-aid system includes an intracorporeal unit that is embedded under a scalp and that includes an intracorporeal vibration generator configured to generate vibration by receiving a magnetic field frequency, and an extracorporeal unit that is disposed extracorporeally, that is configured to generate the magnetic field frequency and to apply the magnetic field frequency to the intracorporeal unit, and that is configured to generate vibration by an extracorporeal vibration generator. The vibration generated by the intracorporeal unit and the vibration generated by the extracorporeal unit vibrate a skull.

The application discloses a design method and system of a maxillofacial defect repair implant, comprising: CT or MR scanning of a patient's head to obtain scanning data; threshold segmentation and non-skeletal part removal processing of the scanning data to obtain a binary image; partial registration of the binary image and a skull binary image template, adjustment of the pose according to the registration result, and determination of the defect type according to the registration missing part; local cutting and scaling processing of the binary image of the patient's skull according to the defect type; input of the processed image into a generation network to generate a preliminary implant design result; import of the preliminary implant design result and the original defect skull image into a mixed reality device, projection into a real space coordinate for fine adjustment and modification to obtain a correction result; transmission of the modification result into a 3D printer for production to obtain a final implant entity. The application can accurately design a suitable implant shape according to medical images of a defect site.

The present application relates to a kind of skull model and preparation method for head inside irradiation living body measurement device calibration, wherein the skull model includes skull, epidermis layer and radioactive source;The radioactive source is arranged on the surface of the skull, and is located on the skull corresponding parietal bone and frontal bone position;The epidermis layer is fixed on the surface of the skull by pouring, and is tissue equivalent material.The present application sets up radioactive source on the surface of the skull, and uses tissue equivalent material as epidermis layer, to form skull model, the model can simulate the deposition in the skull after human body is taken into parent bone nature nuclide, i.e.as the real human body nuclide intake amount according to the amount of radioactive source setting, so as to more accurately calibrate the scale of head inside irradiation living body measurement device, to improve the measurement precision of human body nuclide activity.

A neck mechanism for a mannequin comprises three or more joint units serially connected to provide joints for three or more rotational degrees of freedom (DOF). A rotational axis of a first DOF is configured to be aligned with a lateral axis of the mannequin. A rotational axis of a second DOF is configured to be aligned with an anterior-posterior axis of the mannequin. A rotational axis of a third DOF is configured to be aligned with a cranial-caudal axis of the mannequin. A bottom one of the joint units is adapted to be connected to a torso of the mannequin, and a top one of the at least three joint units is adapted to be connected to a skull. The mannequin may also have a skull connected to the top one of the joint units, and a trunk connected to the bottom one of the joint units. A system for simulating cervical spine motions is also provided.

A bone conduction implant, including a bone fixture including a male screw section configured to screw into a skull and an abutment configured to be rigidly attached to the bone fixture, wherein the abutment includes an exterior surface diameter lying on a first plane normal to a longitudinal axis of the bone conduction implant that is less than or substantially equal to the maximum thread diameter of the male screw section of the bone fixture.

An intramedullary nail implant for positioning in a bone having a head and a shaft defining an intramedullary canal. The implant includes a distal portion having a shaft extending along a central axis and configured for positioning within the intramedullary canal. A proximal portion extends proximally from the distal portion. The proximal portion defines a contact surface which extends at least in part medially of the central axis such that it is configured to extend within a medial portion of the bone head. A method of implanting the nail is also provided.

The invention discloses a preparation method of an interpenetrating phase ceramic dental material, and belongs to the technical field of biomedical materials. Bionic design is carried out based on a porous foam structure and a cavity tissue of bird bones, two bionic bird bone structures combining annular tongue bone structure characteristics and the cavity tissue are established, mortise and tenon matching design is carried out according to a bird skull collaborative vibration reduction mechanism, and the bionic bird bone mortise and tenon structure with collaborative bearing and buffering characteristics is constructed. Compared with a traditional structure, the structure has more excellent mechanical bearing performance and deformation stability. According to the zirconia-hydrogel interpenetrating phase material prepared by a photo-crosslinking method, due to the composite design of a soft-phase material and a hard-phase material, the energy absorption characteristic of the material is remarkably improved, and meanwhile, the fracture toughness of a dental material is effectively improved. On the basis, a functional coating is constructed on the surface of the material by adopting a sol-gel dip-coating process, so that the problem that the dental material is insufficient in corrosion resistance and wear resistance in an oral environment is further solved.

The utility model discloses a radius capitulum bone lamella which comprises a head bone lamella and a main body bone lamella fixedly connected with the head bone lamella, the head bone lamella is in an arc shape matched with the circumferential shape of a human body radius capitulum, and the main body bone lamella is matched with a radius part extending from the near end of the human body radius to the far end of the radius. The head bone plate is provided with a plurality of first screw holes used for fixing the head bone plate and the small head of the radius, and the main body bone plate is provided with a plurality of second screw holes used for fixing the main body bone plate and the radius. The head bone plate is designed in an arc-shaped anatomical mode and can surround the capitulum radius, and the problem of comminuted fracture of the capitulum radius is solved. The first screw hole and the second screw hole are formed in the head bone plate and the main body bone plate respectively, so that the radius small-head bone plate is fixed through the screw holes when fixed, and the thickness of the bone plate can be reduced.

The invention relates to a method and device for maintaining a separately-determined trajectory and securing an electrode or other such placed object through a bone, such as a skull, while also covering the aperture. The device includes a base and an engaging-disengaging butterfly with inner sleeve for temporary engagement of the base and sliding screwdriver for engaging the base or butterfly inner sleeve, depending upon desired function. The base's lower portion engages via threads the bone, while maintaining previously determined trajectory; the upper portion engages the butterfly to continue to maintain previously determined trajectory electrode trajectory; a feature grasps a passing electrode in a given position; the electrode grasp from the butterfly can be then released, the base screwed in to final position, and the butterfly disengaged by unscrewing it from the base.

The present invention discloses a bone conduction glasses facilitating burning and upgrading. Oscillators are respectively arranged in the inner cavities of each pen leg at the rear ends of the left temple and the right temple. When worn, each pen leg is respectively closely attached to the mastoid bones behind the left and right ears. In terms of anatomical relationship, the mastoid bones are closer to the inner ear and the ossicles, thus making the sound wave transmission effect better. The main PCB circuit board can detect the wearing state in real time through the wearing induction thimble to control the power on and off. The playing state can be controlled and the volume can be adjusted through the touch thimble. Charging, preloading and burning, or upgrading and updating software, as well as transmitting burning and updating files, etc. can be carried out through the charging and burning port. It can increase the contact area and stability between the bone conduction oscillator and the skull, can be burned and upgraded without disassembly, is convenient for adjusting the volume and charging operation, and has a good use effect.

To provide a pillow capable of maintaining the head in a posture effective for skull correction.SOLUTION: A skull-correcting pillow 1 comprises: a pair of support sections 21, 31 that support areas corresponding to the surroundings of the left and right mastoid processes of the head of a supine subject; a pair of action sections 22, 32 that act for sandwiching, therebetween from left and right sides, areas corresponding to the vicinity of the boundary between the parietal bone and the left and right temporal bones of the head; and support mechanisms 23, 24, 42, 33, 34, 43 that variably support the relative positions and postures of the pair of support sections 21, 31 and the pair of action sections 22, 32.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A device for stimulating a user's vestibular system is provided. The device includes: a first plurality of bone conduction transducers configured to emit vibrations to a first region of the user's skull to stimulate the vestibular system. Additionally, the device includes: a second plurality of bone conduction transducers configured to emit vibrations to a second region of the user's skull to stimulate the vestibular system. The device further includes: control circuitry configured to control the emission of vibrations from the first and second plurality of bone conduction transducers based on target directional motion perceived by the user's vestibular system.

The invention discloses a temporal bone model experiment device combined with an alarm system, which comprises a temporal bone main body, the temporal bone main body is provided with an operation area and a function area, and the operation area is provided with a cortical bone layer, a cancellous bone layer, internal jugular veins, internal jugular arteries, facial nerves, semicircular canals and auditory bones. The internal jugular vein, the internal jugular artery, the facial nerve, the semicircular canal and the ossicular are embedded in the cancellous bone layer, and the internal jugular vein, the internal jugular artery and the facial nerve are all soft tubes filled with liquid. According to the invention, the hydraulic sensing principle is utilized to simulate the touch sense of real vascular nerves in an operation, and when the bone grinding device is used for operation, if the bone grinding device touches facial nerves, internal jugular veins or internal jugular arteries, the bone grinding device has an alarm function; if the bone grinder grinds and penetrates the skull or touches the meninx, the alarm function can also be achieved, and corresponding alarm prompting effects are achieved through different alarm mechanisms.

This disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device for detecting the external occipital protuberance. The method includes: acquiring an NCCT image sequence of the head of a subject to be detected; determining a skull region based on the NCCT image sequence; determining a candidate region for the external occipital protuberance, including the raphe midline, from the skull region; and determining the location of the external occipital protuberance from the candidate region based on bone thickness characteristics. This method of determining the location of the external occipital protuberance is more accurate and safer.

The invention relates to a maxilla repositioning implant (1) for three-dimensional precise alignment of a maxilla displacing portion (5) relative to a remaining maxilla portion (3) that is fixed to the skull, wherein the maxilla repositioning implant (1) comprises a base (2), which has at least one plate (7) in which screw holes (10) are provided, wherein a portion of the material of the plate (7) defines, as a rim (11), a respective screw hole (10) that is provided for receiving a bone screw (17) in order to ensure fastening, via the bone screw (17) to be inserted into the respective screw hole (10), to the remaining maxilla portion (3) that is fixed to the skull, wherein the maxilla repositioning implant (1) also comprises a connection portion (4), which is spaced apart from the base (2) by connecting bridges (6), wherein the connection portion (4) comprises at least one plate (7) in which screw holes (10) are provided, and wherein a portion of the material of this plate (7) defines, as a rim (11), a respective screw hole (10) in order to ensure fastening, via a bone screw (17) to be inserted into the respective screw hole (10), to the maxilla displacing portion (5), wherein two plates (7) of the base (2) are connected to each other via a retaining bracket (8, 9).

To provide a bone conduction hearing aid system that makes it easy to recognize sounds by solving a problem in which hearing aids attached to the skull transmit vibrations directly from the skull to the inner ear, without going through the middle ear, allowing a patient to recognize sound, and however, the frequency characteristics of such bone conduction hearing aids are different from those of the middle ear, which can make it difficult for patients to recognize sounds.SOLUTION: A bone conduction hearing aid system according to the present invention includes an internal unit that is embedded under the scalp and has a vibration element equipped with a magnetic member, and an external unit that applies a fluctuating magnetic field to the internal unit from outside the scalp, and the skull is vibrated by internally generated vibrations generated by the vibration element of the internal unit, and the fluctuating magnetic field from the external unit is applied to the magnetic member, thereby generating extracorporeal vibrations that cause the external unit to vibrate, and the extracorporeal vibrations vibrate the skull from outside the body as well.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2