An automated method to position prosthetic components within multiple anatomical spaces

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-127

  Viceconti, Marco ^a   Testi, Debora ^a   Simeoni, Monica ^a   Zannoni, Cinzia ^b  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b CINECA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Implant design; Registration; Self positioning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROSTHETICS;

ANATOMICAL REFERENCING TECHNIQUE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FEMUR; HIP; PROSTHESIS; SIMULATION; SURGEON;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037297759     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(02)00010-X     Document Type: Article

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