Stress fracture risk analysis of the human femur based on computational biomechanics

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-230

  Voo, Liming ^a,b   Armand, Mehran ^c,d   Kleinberger, Michael ^e,f,g  

^a APL's National Security Technology Deranment (NSTJD)   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c NSTD ^*  (United States)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Applied Chemical and Biological Sciences Group

^g Biomedical Business Area

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BIOMECHANICS; FEMUR; STRESS FRACTURE; TENSION FRACTURES;

BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FRACTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BONE;

EID: 19944406459     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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