Title :
Preliminary Investigation of Surface Characteristics of Articular Cartilage with 3-D Tomography
Author :
Ghosh, Siddharth ; Shepherd, Duncan E T ; Jiang, Kyle
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
Disease or damage to articular cartilage is major problem of medical science. In this paper we have demonstrated a novel preliminary attempt to analyze surface characteristics of articular cartilage with a noncontact method. We have utilized Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) to obtain the surface morphology of cartilage of the lower femoral head of a Bovine sp. at the nanoscale. Surface roughness has been computed from the ESEM images with three dimensional reconstruction of the surface tomography.
Keywords :
biological tissues; image reconstruction; medical image processing; optical tomography; scanning electron microscopy; surface morphology; surface roughness; 3-D tomography; Bovine sp; ESEM; Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope; articular cartilage; lower femoral head; noncontact method; surface characteristics; surface morphology; surface roughness; three dimensional reconstruction; Rough surfaces; Scanning electron microscopy; Surface morphology; Surface reconstruction; Surface roughness; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Nanoscience, Technology and Societal Implications (NSTSI), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bhubaneswar
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2035-2
DOI :
10.1109/NSTSI.2011.6111998
