Computer graphics help treat cleft lip and palate
PD Dr. Andreas Mueller from University Hospital Basel and Dr. Barbara Solenthaler from the Computer Graphics Laboratory at D-INFK are combining medicine and computer graphics to improve pre-surgical cleft lip and palate treatment.
PD Dr. Andreas Mueller, a chief surgeon at the University Hospital of Basel with experience in cleft surgeries for more than 20 years, is collaborating with computer graphics specialist Dr. Barbara Solenthaler and her team from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich to bring the state of the art technology into the preoperative cleft treatment regime. Teaming up these seemingly different disciplines with the funding from the Botnar Research Center for Child Health (BRCCH) build the basis of their success story.