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presented. Additionally, this tool allows the pro-
grammers to easily develops and add to the soft-
ware, clinical and surgical specific applications. As
a proof of concept, two different applications were
presented, taking in account the capabilities of the
proposed software. The first one, allowing the cli-
nician/surgeon to dynamically preoperative simu-
late a Femoroacetabular impingement treatment
and the second one, allowing the surgeon to easily
inspect the ideal pose of the prosthetic cup in the
Hip Resurfacing surgery scenario.
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was partially supported by Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, through IDMEC
under LAETA, and by FCT grants with ref-
erences PTDC/EME-CRO/099333/2008, and
European Union FP7 Project: ...