A measurement technique to evaluate the macroscopic permeability of the vertebral end-plate

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-122

  Accadbled, Franck ^a,b   Ambard, Dominique ^a   de Gauzy, Jérôme Sales ^a,b   Swider, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DES ENFANTS   (France)

Author keywords

Experimental method; Permeability; Porous media; Spine; Vertebral end plate

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW RATE; HYDRATION; POROUS MATERIALS;

POROELASTIC THEORY; VERTEBRAL END-PLATE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL END PLATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MATRIX; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 38149058067     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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