Optimization of the geometry of total knee implant in the sagittal plane using FEA

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 439-449

  Dargahi, Javad ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^b   Amiri, Shahram ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

FEA; Knee implant; Optimization; Stability; Wear

Indexed keywords

BONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYETHYLENES; STRESSES;

FEMORAL COMPONENTS; FLEXION ANGLES; SAGITTAL PLANES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

METAL; POLYETHYLENE; ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE RESECTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLEXION ANGLE; GEOMETRY; IMPLANT STABILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MINIMUM BONE RESECTION; MODEL; PATELLA LEVER ARM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; ROLL BACK DISTANCE; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; WEAR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STRESS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0346848861     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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