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    Total Knee Replacement with Ceramic Components: Evaluation, Material Characteristics and Clinical Performance

    Since the first clinical use of ceramics in total joint arthroplasty, the material properties, manufacturing methods and implant design have been improved. This led to the development of a total knee replaceme...

    Philipp Bergschmidt Dr. med, Rainer Bader in Tribology in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplas… (2014)

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    A New Approach for Diagnostic Investigation of Total Hip Replacement Loosening

    Diagnosis of total hip replacement (THR) loosening using imaging often fails to provide reliable results. New implants instrumented with sensors shall conform to this challenge. Therefore, a novel concept of a...

    Catherine Ruther, Ulrich Timm in Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technol… (2013)

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    Robot-Based Testing of Total Joint Replacements

    Instabilities of artificial joints are prevalent complications in total joint arthroplasty. In order to investigate failure mechanisms like dislocation of total hip replacements or instability of total knee re...

    Christoph Woernle, Michael Kähler in Multibody System Dynamics, Robotics and Co… (2013)