I had a colleague done study on the wrist. Please look at his publications if it is related to your study.

Mohd Nazri Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir,” Computational Biomechanics of the Wrist Joint”, SpringerBrief, 2012. ISBN : 978-3-642-31905-1

M.N. Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Murali Malliga Raman, T. Kamarul., " Mechanical and functional assessment of the wrist affected by rheumatoid arthritis: A finite element analysis." Journal of Medical Engineering and Physics, 2012.

M.N. Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Iskandar Mohd Amin, Andreas Öchsner.," Biomechanical analysis of rheumatoid arthritis of the wrist joint." Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 2012.

M.N. Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Murali Malliga Raman, T. Kamarul.," Biomechanical analysis of the wrist arthroplasty in rheumatoid arthritis: a finite element analysis." Journal of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2012.

Dear Mark,

In the link below you can find a solidworks 3D hand and wrist model for download. This is not a standard model, but it might be useful to make some tests and set up your simulations. Hope this helps,

Regards.

http://grabcad.com/library/human-left-hand

Thank you Joaquim, this will be a good starting point.

Utah has a public data set available. I haven't personally looked at it to see how useful it is, but the link indicates it's a CT dataset. http://www.sci.utah.edu/download/IV3DData.html

I do not believe that there is any standard 3D anatomical model for any part of the human body. For adult humans, the customary practice in the finite element community has been to pick a 50th percentile specimen as a model. That usually means a live Caucasian male of about 26 years age. However, there is an emerging impetus in covering all aspects of age, gender, physical differences, etc. In the long term, the biomechanics community could do well with a body of experts that set up standards of testing and modeling humans a la ASTM or ASME standards for materials.

For obtaining more information on acquiring CT- or MRI-scans of human hand, I suggest the following two web sites (there must be many more):

Commercial: http://www.imaios.com/en/e-Anatomy (existing models)

Commerical: http://www.simpleware.com (made to order, but could have an existing one)

Govermental: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html (free, I guess)

Regards.

I had a colleague done study on the wrist. Please look at his publications if it is related to your study.

Mohd Nazri Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir,” Computational Biomechanics of the Wrist Joint”, SpringerBrief, 2012. ISBN : 978-3-642-31905-1

M.N. Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Murali Malliga Raman, T. Kamarul., " Mechanical and functional assessment of the wrist affected by rheumatoid arthritis: A finite element analysis." Journal of Medical Engineering and Physics, 2012.

M.N. Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Iskandar Mohd Amin, Andreas Öchsner.," Biomechanical analysis of rheumatoid arthritis of the wrist joint." Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 2012.

M.N. Bajuri, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Murali Malliga Raman, T. Kamarul.," Biomechanical analysis of the wrist arthroplasty in rheumatoid arthritis: a finite element analysis." Journal of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2012.

see: J.A.Kauffman Automated radiographic assessment of hands in rheumatoid arthritis. Never published in journals, but a thesis University Twente

I found one extra thesis, if you want it give me your correct POSTAL address

I expect you have considered this already, but JIC: have you tried obtaining a set of CT series for human hands, male and female, from hospitals or university gross anatomy courses, then producing STL, vrml or other 3D output files from them? My lab has done this for a number of species and objects, and we may have some hand data that you are welcome to use. http://csi.whoi.edu

Try contacting Tracy Kivell and Matt Tocheri. If such a model exists, then they would be able to point you in the right direction.

If people are still looking for anatomical models, my company Simpleware also has a Human Body Models service - www.humanbodymodels.com - where you can request generic models from MRI and CT datasets. Visit the site or contact [email protected] if you have any questions.

If all you need is the external surfaces, you could try a free photogrammetry solution such as 123D Catch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsBg-m2hrIM). Other than that, you can purchase a model from TurboSquid like this (http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/obj-realistic-male-hand-max8/489322) or purchase a 3D scanned hand like this (http://www.3dscanstore.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=159). Both are modestly priced.