Monitoring of Postoperative Bone Healing Using Smart Trauma-Fixation Device with Integrated Self-Powered Piezo-Floating-Gate Sensors

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1463-1472

  Borchani, Wassim ^a   Aono, Kenji ^b   Lajnef, Nizar ^a   Chakrabartty, Shantanu ^c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone healing monitoring; self powered piezo floating gate (PFG) sensors; Smart trauma fixation device

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SURGERY;

BONE HEALING; BONE HEALING PROCESS; FIXATION DEVICE; FLOATING GATES; HARVESTING ENERGIES; MECHANICAL LOADING; STRAIN EVOLUTION; STRAIN VARIATION;

BONE;

COPOLYMER; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE REGENERATION; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; OSTEOTOMY; PHANTOM; PIEZO FLOATING GATE SENSOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; TRANSISTOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; YOUNG MODULUS;

BONE PLATES; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES;

EID: 84978083311     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2496237     Document Type: Article

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