Pore distribution and material properties of bone cement cured at different temperatures

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 886-891

  Pelletier, Matthew H ^a   Lau, Abe C B ^a   Smitham, Peter J ^a   Nielsen, Gary ^b   Walsh, William R ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Mater Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone cement; Mechanical properties; Micro CT; PMMA; Porosity

Indexed keywords

BONE; COOLING SYSTEMS; CURING; MOLDS; PORE SIZE;

CEMENT PROPERTIES; CURING ENVIRONMENTS; CURING TEMPERATURE; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; IMPLANT INTERFACES; LARGE PORES; MICRO CT; PMMA; PORES DISTRIBUTION; REGULATORY STANDARDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BONE CEMENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATERIAL STATE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 75449084150     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2009.09.016     Document Type: Article

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