Confocal raman spectroscopic analysis of ceramic hip joints

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 309-311 II, Issue , 2006, Pages 1211-1214

  Pezzotti, G ^a   Clarke, I C ^b   Jobe, C ^b   Donaldson, T ^b   Yamamoto, K ^c   Tateiwa, T ^c   Kumakura, T ^c   Tsukamoto, R ^b   Ikeda, J ^d  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Department of Orthopaedics   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Japan Medical Materials Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Hip joint; Phase transformation; Raman spectroscopy; Residual stress

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE; JOINTS (ANATOMY); PHASE TRANSITIONS; RESIDUAL STRESSES;

HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP JOINTS; INSTRUMENTAL CONFIGURATIONS;

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33645363270     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/0-87849-992-x.1211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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