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Computer Assisted Simulation System for Orthognathic Surgery |
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INVESTIGATORS
Prof. Horace H S Ip , Dr. James J Xia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
CASSOS is a comprehensive windows-based software for frontal and lateral cephalometric analysis, diagnosis, surgical planning and surgery prediction. Besides, it provides an organization facility for the huge amount of patient textual and image data as well as analytic and surgery information.
Supporting features are also available: such as customizable reference planes, cephalometric analysis schemes, x-ray and portrait tracing schemes, as well as operation based bone-fresh movement, relations for surgery prediction, etc.
CASSOS was first reported by Hong Kong Economics Times at Feb 16, 2000. ( 700KB, 123KB).
The CASSOS 2001 software was launched in Hong Kong on 12 Sept, 2000. Click here for the press cuttings.
Click here to go to the CASSOS web page.
FUNDING AGENCY
Industrial Business Development Grant
ANIMATION
The below animation shows (1) the surgical planning of bones, (2) the corresponding changes of soft-tissue outline, and (3) the predicted outlook of the patient.