DocumentCode
544182
Title
Delopment of an experimental set-up for assessment of relative movement of hip prostheses in vitro
Author
Labey, L. ; Sloten, J.V. ; Van Audekercke, R. ; Van der Perre, G.
Author_Institution
Div. of Biomech. & Eng. Design, K.U. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Volume
1
fYear
1992
fDate
Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992
Firstpage
29
Lastpage
30
Abstract
Starting from a clear and quantifiable definition of local relative movement between the hip prosthesis and the bone, we developed a method to measure the defined movement and an instrumentation to accomplish the measurements in practice. Measurements were made on a custom-made hip prosthesis.
Keywords
biomechanics; biomedical measurement; bone; prosthetics; bone; hip prostheses; relative movement measurement; Bones; Loading; Prosthetics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Paris
Print_ISBN
0-7803-0785-2
Electronic_ISBN
0-7803-0816-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5760841
Filename
5760841
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