SUMMER TRAINING

(6 WEEKS TRAINING)

MIMICS
At CSIR-CSIO

By- PRAJJWAL NEGI

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY INSTITUITE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
PANJAB UNIVERSITY
CHANDIGARH
 CSIO-CSIR
Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO), a constituent
unit of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), is a
premier national laboratory dedicated to research, design and
development of scientific and industrial instruments. It is a multi-
disciplinary and multi-dimensional apex industrial research &
development organization in the country to stimulate growth of
Instrument Industry in India covering wide range and
applications.

CSIO is a multi-disciplinary organization having well equipped

laboratories manned by highly qualified and well trained staff
with infrastructural facilities in the areas of Medical
Instrumentation and Prosthetic Devices; Optics and Cockpit
based Instrumentation; Fiber/Laser Optics based Sensors &
Instrumentation; Analytical Instrumentation; Advanced Materials
based Transducers etc. Having contributed substantially towards
the growth of the scientific instruments industry in the country,
CSIO enjoys high degree of credibility among the users of the
instruments as well as the instrument industry.
 INTRODUCTION

• Mimics (Materialise's Interactive Medical Image Control

System) is Materialise’s software for processing medical
images and creating 3D models.

• It uses 2D cross-sectional medical images such as from

computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) to construct 3D models, which can then be
directly linked to rapid prototyping, CAD, surgical
simulation and advanced engineering analysis.
MIMICS DISPLAY
 BASIC SEGMENTATION

• The medical images coming from CT or MRI scanners consist of

grayscale information. Mimics allows the user to create models
based on the grayvalues (Hounsfield units in CT images) within these
images. A grayvalue is a number associated with an image pixel
defining the shade (white, gray, or black) of the pixel.
• Threshholding
• Region growing
• Calculate 3D
• Editing Tools
ADVANCED SEGMENTATION

-> Boolean Operations

-> Multiple Slice Edit

-> Measurement Tools

 ADVANCED SEGMENTAION

• Cut
• Split
• position an implant
• import STL
 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

• The FEA module of Mimics allows optimization of triangle

meshes to prepare for further analysis using FEA or CFD.
Remeshing is used to increase and optimize the quality of
triangles and preprocess a model for analytical packages.
• The typical process for remeshing includes smoothing the
mesh to remove sharp edges that may act as unwanted stress
risers in analysis, reducing the number of triangles to enhance
the calculation speed during FEA, and optimizing triangle
quality. The following picture shows an example of a mesh
before and after it has been optimized.
 OPERATIONS

• Remeshing
• creating a volume mesh
• Material Assignment
• export to FEA
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