Y-TZP zirconia run against highly crosslinked UHMWPE tibial inserts: Knee simulator wear and phase-transformation studies

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 145-153

  Tsukamoto, Riichiro ^a   Williams, Paul A ^a   Clarke, Ian C ^a   Pezzotti, Giuseppe ^b   Shoji, Hiromu ^a   Akagi, Masao ^c   Yamamoto, Kengo ^d  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Knee prosthesis; Polyethylene; Wear; Zirconia

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; JOINT PROSTHESES; ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

CROSSLINKED; KNEE SIMULATORS; UHMWPE TIBIAL INSERTS;

ZIRCONIA;

YTTRIA STABILIZED ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; INTERFEROMETRY; KINEMATICS; KNEE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATOR;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CERAMICS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; KNEE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYETHYLENES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TIBIA; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 45749093295     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.30999     Document Type: Article

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