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A Novel Method for in Vivo Knee Prosthesis Wear Measurement by A. Short; H.S. Gill; B. Marks; J.C. Waite; C.F. Kellett; A.J. Price; J.J. O’Connor; D.W. Murray is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Novel Method for in Vivo Knee Prosthesis Wear Measurement about?
Wear remains an important cause of failure in knee replacement. Of the current methods of early performance assessment or prediction, simulators have been un-physiological, single X-ray film analyses remain limited by accuracy and retrieval and survival methods have a prohibitive time scale. An accurate method is needed to allow a timely assessment of polyethylene component wear in vivo, when a new design is introduced, in order to predict likely outcome. We present a new method for measuring wear in vivo that we believe will allow this prediction of long-term wear. X-ray film pairs were taken of implanted prosthetic metal components. When the X-ray system was calibrated, projections of the appropriate Computer Aided Design (CAD) model could be matched to the shapes on the scanned X-ray films to find component positions. Interpenetration of the metal femoral component into the polyethylene component could then be established and represents our estimate of "wear". This method was used to measure in vivo prosthesis wear to an accuracy of 0.11 mm.
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- Author
- A. Short; H.S. Gill; B. Marks; J.C. Waite; C.F. Kellett; A.J. Price; J.J. O’Connor; D.W. Murray
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0021-9290)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)