Manufacturing and microscopical characterisation of polyurethane nerve guidance channel featuring a highly smooth internal surface

Biomaterials

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 1919-1924

  Soldani, G ^a   Varelli, G ^a   Minnocci, A ^b   Dario, P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AFM; Microgeometry; Nerve guidance channels; Polyurethanes; SEm; Silastic

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOPOLYMERS; GRAFTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

MICROGEOMETRY; NERVE GUIDANCE CHANNELS; SILASTIC;

POLYURETHANES;

POLYURETHAN; SILASTIC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0032212727     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(98)00085-4     Document Type: Article

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