Measuring orthopedic implant wear on standard radiographs with a precision in the 10 μm-range

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 520-529

  Burckhardt, Kathrin ^a   Dora, Claudio ^b   Gerber, Christian ^b   Hodler, Jürg ^b   Székely, Gábor ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analysis by Synthesis; CAD model; Implant; Wear; X ray image

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS-BY-SYNTHESIS ALGORITHM; ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT WEAR; X-RAY IMAGE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ESTIMATION; ORTHOPEDICS; POLYETHYLENES; PROSTHETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WEAR OF MATERIALS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

POLYETHYLENE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HIP JOINT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33746673125     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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