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This paper concerns the design and manufacture of medical devices, such as lower limb prosthesis, integrating low cost industrial technologies. In particular, it focuses the attention on the custom-fit component of a lower limb prosthesis, i.e., the socket, that is the interface with the residual limb. The considered process starts from the 3D reconstruction of patients’ limb and ends with the manufacture of the socket with a 3D printer using a multi-material approach. The process counts three steps: 3D modeling, testing (both experimental and numerical) and manufacturing. For each step adopted solutions and tools are described. Finally, conclusions are drawn mainly concerning the challenge of multi-material 3D printing of the socket.
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Comotti, C., Regazzoni, D., Rizzi, C., Vitali, A. (2017). Pressure Data and Multi-material Approach to Design Prosthesis. In: Fardoun, H., R. Penichet, V., Alghazzawi, D., De la Guia, M. (eds) ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques. REHAB 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 665. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69694-2_4
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