Low intensity pulsed ultrasound increases the mechanical properties of the healing tissues at bone-tendon junction

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2141-2144

  Lu, Min Hua ^a   Zheng, Yong Ping ^b   Huang, Qing Hua ^c   Lu, Hong Bin ^d   Qin, Ling ^d  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

BONE MINERAL DENSITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; HEALING TISSUES; INDENTATION SYSTEM; LOW-INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND; NONCONTACT ULTRASOUND; PATELLAR CARTILAGE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY;

TENDONS;

EID: 77950973443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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