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Two Ultrasonic Techniques to Evaluate Bone Remodeling About Femoral Prostheses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Mark C. Zimmerman
Affiliation:
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Newark, NJ 07103
Alain Meunier
Affiliation:
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Newark, NJ 07103
Pascal Christel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherches Orthopediques-Faculte de Medecine, Lariboisiere-St. Louis, 75010, Paris. France
Laurent Sedel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherches Orthopediques-Faculte de Medecine, Lariboisiere-St. Louis, 75010, Paris. France
J. Lawrence Katz
Affiliation:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Troy, NY 12180
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Ultrasonic techniques have been used extensively to measure the anisotropic elastic properties of calcified tissue [1–4]. Yoon and Katz [3] have derived the equations relating the elastic constants to the technical moduli: Young's modulus, shear modulus, and the bulk modulus. In order to make these calculations they assumed that bone was transversely isotropic (hexagonally symmetric). Abendschein and Hyatt [1] demonstrated that there was a good correlation between the longitudinal modulus (E3) of bone experimentally measured with ultrasound and mechanical techniques. Some investigators have even used these techniques to determine the different mechanical properties of pathological bone (osteopetrotic, osteoporotic) [4].

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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