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3D Assessment of Mandibular Growth Based on Image Registration: A Feasibility Study in a Rabbit Model

Background. Our knowledge of mandibular growth mostly derives from cephalometric radiography, which has inherent limitations due to the two-dimensional (2D) nature of measurement. Objective. To assess 3D morphological changes occurring during growth in a r ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2014

Factors affecting subject-specific finite element models of implant-fitted rat bone specimens: critical analysis of a technical protocol

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Marco Piccinini

The authors propose a protocol to derive finite element (FE) models from micro computer tomography scans of implanted rat bone. A semi-automatic procedure allows segmenting the images using specimen-specific bone mineral density (BMD) thresholds. An open-s ...

Taylor & Francis2014

Investigation of Polymer Thick-film Piezoresistors for Medical Wrist Rehabilitation and Artificial Knee Load Sensors

Peter Ryser, Eric Meurville, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq, Matteo Simoncini, Simon Emery

Readily-available and low-cost commercial polymer-based composite materials, such as standard epoxy-fibreglass printed circuit board (PCB) substrates and resin-carbon thick-film piezoresistors, were evaluated as a solution for medical force sensors, such a ...

Elsevier2014

Design and integration of an instrumented knee prosthesis

Matteo Simoncini

Total knee arthroplasty is nowadays one of the most important orthopedic surgery. It consists of a procedure in which parts of the knee are replaced by a prosthesis. The largest indication for total knee arthroplasty is osteoarthritis, a knee disease that ...

EPFL2014

FE modeling of micromotion at the bone-implant interface

Denis Stauffer

Nowadays, pain and mobility issues of the hip such as arthritis bring more and more people to go through a hip replacement. The primary stability of an implant is essential for the long-term success of hip arthroplasty. Excessive micromotion is an indicato ...

2014

External Mechanical Microstimuli Modulate the Osseointegration of Titanium Implants in Rat Tibiae

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni

Purpose. To assess the effect of external mechanical microstimuli of controlled magnitude on the microarchitecture of the peri-implant bone beds in rat tibiae. Materials and Methods. Tibiae of forty rats were fitted with two transcutaneous titanium cylinde ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2013

In-vivo condition monitoring of metallic implants by electrochemical techniques

Stefano Mischler, Eric Meurville

The invention relates to a replacement metallic prosthesis to be implanted which contains means monitor its condition during use in order to allow an early detection of failure or insufficient functionality, wherein said means comprise implanted sensors an ...

2013

Design and test of a MEMS strain-sensing device for monitoring artificial knee implants

Kamiar Aminian, Philippe Renaud, Alexandre Terrier, Arnaud Bertsch, Arash Arami, Willyan Hasenkamp Carreira

This paper describes the development of a polyimide-based MEMS strain-sensing device. Finite element analysis was used to investigate an artificial knee implant and assist on device design and to optimize sensing characteristics. The sensing element of the ...

Springer2013

Relationship between interfacial micromotion and bone density around cementless hip implant

Valérie Parvex

The hip is one of the most injured joint in the body with ageing. Osteoarthritis and degenerative diseases often lead to the necessity of a total hip arthroplasty in order to reduce pain and increase mobility. The advantage of cementless implants resides i ...

2013

Remote Powering and Wireless Communication of a Smart Knee Prosthesis

Oguz Atasoy

With the advance in microelectronics and microsystems, better instruments in every domain are designed and built. For many years, scientists have tried to understand nature, and engineers to mimic the perfect design. One example of this is the human knee, ...

EPFL2013

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