Improvement of arthroscopic cartilage stiffness probe using amorphous diamond coating

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-22

  Töyräs, Juha ^a,b   Korhonen, Rami K ^a   Voutilainen, Tanja ^a   Jurvelin, Jukka S ^a,b   Lappalainen, Reijo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Amorphous diamond; Arthroscopic probe; Articular cartilage; Coating(s); Finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

ARC LAMPS; COATINGS; DIAMONDS; FRICTION; STAINLESS STEEL; STIFFNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AMORPHOUS DIAMOND (AD) COATING; ARTHROSCOPIC CARTILAGE STIFFNESS PROBE; BOVINE OSTEOCHONDRAL SAMPLES; FILTERED PULSED ARC-DISCHARGE (FPAD);

CARTILAGE;

DIAMOND;

ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; FRICTION; MATERIAL COATING; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL PROBE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIGIDITY; SAFETY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROSCOPES; ARTHROSCOPY; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; DIAMOND; FRICTION; JOINT DISEASES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATELLA; STAINLESS STEEL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 16444385488     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.30173     Document Type: Article

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