A study of the aging of silicone breast implants using 29Si, 1H relaxation and DSC measurements

Biomaterials

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4405-4413

  Birkefeld, Anja Britta ^a   Eckert, Hellmut ^a   Pfleiderer, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; DSC; NMR relaxation time; Silicone implants

Indexed keywords

GELS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS;

MONOMER MATERIALS; SILICON BREAST IMPLANTS;

BIOMATERIALS;

HYDROGEN; LIPID; POLYMER; POLYSILOXANE; SILICONE;

AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DEVICE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BREAST IMPLANTS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; DRUG STABILITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTONS; SILICON; SILICONES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1642316065     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2003.10.093     Document Type: Article

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