New objective measurement to characterize the porosity of textile implants

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 176-183

  Mühl, Thomas ^a   Binnebösel, Marcel ^b   Klinge, Uwe ^b,c   Goedderz, Thomas ^a  

^a AACHEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mesh structure; Pore size; Porosity

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PORE SIZE; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

IMPLANTED MATERIALS; MESH STRUCTURE;

FIBERS;

POLYPROPYLENE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FOREIGN BODY; GRANULOMA; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROSCOPY; PELVIS FLOOR; POROSITY; TEXTILE; TISSUE REACTION; TISSUE REPAIR;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATERIALS TESTING; POROSITY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOFTWARE; TEXTILES; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 37549041383     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.30859     Document Type: Article

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