are designing software that will transform the Visible Human male into anybody, of any age, gender, height, weight, and bone structure. This "morphing" will help create knee and hip replacement devices custom-tailored to the patient. (EAI has already produced images that depict a knee and hip replacement designed to fit the Visible Human male. They will show animations of these and demonstrate how this technology can be used to morph the male into various body sizes.) Because this is "virtual prototyping," created on a computer without building physical models of the devices, EAI's morphing software is expected to save considerable time and money.

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Contact: Robert Mehnert
publicinfo@nlm.nih.gov
301-496-6308
NIH/National Library of Medicine
22-Sep-1998

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