About the Authors

Maryam Tilton

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

maryam.tilton@gmail.com (MT); gum53@psu.edu (GM)

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gregory S. Lewis

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael W. Hast

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biedermann Lab for Orthopaedic Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Edward Fox

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Guha Manogharan

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

maryam.tilton@gmail.com (MT); gum53@psu.edu (GM)

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

TransMachine Additive (NC, USA) provided support on EBM fabrication of the patient-specific implant in this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.