Medical, Orthopedics & Body Scanning

Laan Labs builds 3D body scanning software for companies that make things to fit a person: orthotics and footwear, prosthetics, custom casts and braces, eyewear, and made-to-measure clothing. A clinician, fitter or the customer scans a foot, a limb, a face or a torso with an iPhone or iPad; the software returns an accurate 3D model and the measurements the product is made from. In one project Laan Labs delivered on-device body-part scanning for custom 3D printed casts, built to the customer's accuracy requirement of plus or minus 2 mm.

Fitting has traditionally meant plaster casts, foam impression boxes, tape measures and calipers, or a dedicated scanner that costs thousands and stays in one clinic. Each is slow, hard to repeat, and requires the person to be in the room. A phone changes that. The front-facing TrueDepth sensor captures fine detail at close range, the rear LiDAR sensor covers larger areas, and ordinary photographs fill in where neither applies, so a scan can be taken in a clinic, a shop or at home, and the shape arrives as data that goes straight into design and manufacturing.

Laan Labs has worked on body-part scanning across feet, limbs, faces and full bodies, and on the computer vision around it, including real-time foot tracking for virtual footwear try-on. Scans of people are sensitive, so these systems are built to reconstruct on the device wherever possible, with nothing uploaded that does not need to be.

How Laan Labs helps

Foot scanning for orthotics and footwear

A 3D model of the foot with length, width, arch and instep measurements, for custom insoles and orthotics, orthopedic and made-to-measure footwear, and size recommendation, replacing foam boxes and plaster.

Limb scans for casts, braces and prosthetics

Scans of arms, legs and residual limbs detailed enough to design a 3D printed cast, a brace or a prosthetic socket from, captured in minutes without contact and repeatable as the limb changes.

Face scanning for eyewear

A detailed scan of the face from the TrueDepth sensor giving pupillary distance, bridge and temple measurements, for custom-fit and 3D printed frames, lens fitting and virtual try-on at true scale.

Body measurement for clothing

Body scans and the measurements derived from them, for made-to-measure garments, uniforms, compression wear and size recommendation, without a fitting appointment.

Guided capture for non-experts

A capture flow that tells a clinician, a fitter or a patient at home where to move and when the scan is complete, and that checks coverage and quality before the scan is accepted, so a bad scan is caught on the spot and not at manufacturing.

Automatic landmarks and measurements

Models that locate anatomical landmarks on the scan and take the same measurements the same way every time, removing the variation between one fitter and the next.

Design and manufacturing handoff

Clean, watertight meshes exported as STL, OBJ or PLY, aligned and trimmed to a consistent convention, ready for CAD, 3D printing or milling, and delivered to the order or patient record they belong to.

On-device processing

Reconstruction and measurement on the phone or tablet itself, so scans of patients and customers do not have to leave the device or the organization's own systems.

Where to start

A first project is usually one body part and one product, such as feet for insoles or forearms for casts. Laan Labs builds a working capture and measurement prototype in weeks and tests it against the client's current method, whether calipers, casts or a reference scanner, on real people, so accuracy and repeatability are established with numbers before the workflow reaches customers.

The scanning technology can be licensed and built into an existing app, or delivered as a complete white-label app with user management and order workflow. See 3D capture and technology licensing and computer vision and AI development.

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