Real-time ultrasound-computed tomography image fusion for transforaminal lumbar approach: a lumbosacral spine phantoms study.

Purpose: Ultrasound (US) is increasingly used for transforaminal approaches. We evaluated whether fusing computed tomography (CT) images with dynamic US could be based on bony and surface landmarks in two phantom models.

Methods: Recordings were performed in a gelatin-based sonographic phantom and in a computerized imaging reference system training phantom.

Orthopaedic support with 3D printing in children : marketing effect or solution of the future?

In pediatric orthopaedics, the immobilization of a limb is traditionally done by a cast. The emergence of 3D technologies allows us to produce restraints specific to the anatomical characteristics of the patient. This paper aims to determine the feasibility of the process of developing these restraints.