Microwear phenomena of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene cups and debris morphology related to γ radiation dose in simulator study

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-73

  Yamamoto, Kengo ^a   Clarke, Ian C ^a   Masaoka, Toshinori ^a   Oonishi, Hironobu ^b   Williams, Paul A ^a   Good, Victoria D ^a   Imakiire, Atsuhiro ^c  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tominaga Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crosslinked polyethylene; Hip simulator; Scanning electron microcroscopy; Total hip arthroplasty; Wear debris

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; RADIATION;

SURFACE FIBRILS;

POLYETHYLENES;

POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HIP PROSTHESIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAMMA RAYS; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0035002965     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4636(200107)56:1<65::AID-JBM1069>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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