Background There is a huge unmet global need for affordable prostheses. Amputations
often happen in Sierra Leone due to serious infections, complex wounds, traffic accidents …

Measurement and production of traditional prosthetic sockets are time-consuming, labor-
intensive, and highly dependent on the personnel involved. An alternative way to make …

Nowadays, the reduction of petroleum products has been aggressively studied due to their
environmental concerns and for finding alternative synthetic materials for sustainable …

Lower-limb prosthesis design and manufacturing still rely mostly on the workshop process of
trial-and-error using expensive unrecyclable composite materials, resulting in time …

The medical device conceptual design decision-making is a process of coordinating
pertinent stakeholders, which will significantly affect the quality of follow-up market …

Traditional prosthetic liners are often limited in customization due to constraints in
manufacturing processes and materials. Typically made from non-compressible elastomers …

The well-established finite element method (FEM) has been used successfully to evaluate
and develop medical devices for lower-limb prosthetics over recent decades. Most …

One of the main limitations in subject-centred design approach is represented by getting 3D
models of the region of interest. Indeed, 3D reconstruction from imaging data (ie, computed …

The paper deals with an investigation on the role of interactive sculpting and radial basis
function (RBF) mesh morphing in the field of biomechanical computer-aided simulations. In …

Additive manufacturing technologies are increasingly taking place in the medical field,
enabling the creation of graspable patient-specific anatomical models. Because of their …