Modelling by percolation theory of the behaviour of natural coral used as bone substitute

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3611-3623

  Barbotteau, Yves ^a   Irigaray, J L ^b   Mathiot, J F ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

OSSIFICATION; RESORPTION;

PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE);

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ARTICLE; BONE PROSTHESIS; BONE REMODELING; CALCIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; IMPLANTATION; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BONE AND BONES; BONE SUBSTITUTES; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OSSEOINTEGRATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

EID: 0242437855     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/21/011     Document Type: Article

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