• 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