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

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanoscience, Technology and Societal Implications (NSTSI), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bhubaneswar

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2035-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSTSI.2011.6111998

Filename

6111998