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A CAD-CAM methodology to produce bone-remodelled composite femurs for preclinical investigations

scientific article

A comparative study on different methods of automatic mesh generation of human femurs.

scientific article published in January 1998

A minimal parametric model of the femur to describe axial elastic strain in response to loads

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

A modified method for assigning material properties to FE models of bones.

scientific article published on 12 July 2007

A new hip epiphyseal prosthesis: design revision driven by a validated numerical procedure

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A physical phantom for the calibration of three-dimensional X-ray microtomography examination

scientific article published in May 2006

A pictographic atlas for classifying damage modes on polyethylene bearings

scientific article published on 02 April 2011

Accuracy of finite element predictions in sideways load configurations for the proximal human femur

scientific article published on 12 November 2011

Accurate in vitro identification of fracture onset in bones: failure mechanism of the proximal human femur.

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An experimental analogue to model the fibrous tissue layer in cemented hip replacements

scientific article published in May 2004

Analysis of 16 retrieved proximal cemented femoral stems.

scientific article published in April 2006

Application of digital volume correlation to study the efficacy of prophylactic vertebral augmentation

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Are spontaneous fractures possible? An example of clinical application for personalised, multiscale neuro-musculo-skeletal modelling

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Assessing the Mechanical Weakness of Vertebrae Affected by Primary Tumors: A Feasibility Study

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Assessment of femoral neck fracture risk for a novel proximal epiphyseal hip prosthesis.

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Biofabrication of Electrospun Scaffolds for the Regeneration of Tendons and Ligaments

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Biofabrication of bundles of poly(lactic acid)-collagen blends mimicking the fascicles of the human Achille tendon

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

Biomechanical robustness of a new proximal epiphyseal hip replacement to patient variability and surgical uncertainties: a FE study

scientific article published on 02 August 2011

Can CT image deblurring improve finite element predictions at the proximal femur?

scientific article published on 9 July 2016

Can the rasp be used to predict intra-operatively the primary stability that can be achieved by press-fitting the stem in cementless hip arthroplasty?

scientific article published on 20 February 2008

Combined wear behavior and long-term implant-bone fixation of total knee replacement: a novel in vitro set-up.

scientific article published on May 2010

Comments on "In vitro analysis of Exeter stem torsional stability" by Bell CG, Weinrauch P, Pearcy M, Crawford R, published on J Arthroplasty. 2007 Oct;22(7):1024-30

scientific article published on 15 January 2009

Comments on "Stair climbing is more critical than walking in pre-clinical assessment of primary stability in cementless THA in vitro" by Jean-Pierre Kassi, Markus O. Heller, Ulrich Stoeckle, Carsten Perka, Georg N. Duda, Published on J. Biomechanics

scientific article published on 3 November 2006

Comments on "femoral surface strain in intact composite femurs: a custom computer analysis of the photoelastic coating technique."

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

Comments on ‘Experimental versus computational analysis of micromotions at the implant - bone interface’

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Comparative in vitro study on the long term performance of cemented hip stems: validation of a protocol to discriminate between "good" and "bad" designs

scientific article published in November 2003

Comparison of three standard anatomical reference frames for the tibia-fibula complex

scientific article published on 7 November 2008

Design revision of a partially cemented hip stem

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Device to measure intra-operatively the primary stability of cementless hip stems

scientific article published on 6 September 2005

Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Assessment of the Non-Linear Response of the Anterior Longitudinal Ligament of the Spine during Flexion and Extension

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Digital volume correlation can be used to estimate local strains in natural and augmented vertebrae: An organ-level study

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Effect of long-term physiological activity on the long-term stem stability of cemented hip arthroplasty: in vitro comparison of three commercial bone cements

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Effect of stem preheating on the fatigue behaviour of bone cement around hip prostheses.

scientific article published in July 2009

Effect of the initial implant fitting on the predicted secondary stability of a cementless stem.

scientific article published in March 2004

Effect of undersizing on the long-term stability of the Exeter hip stem: A comparative in vitro study

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Endurance testing of hip prostheses: a comparison between the load fixed in ISO 7206 standard and the physiological loads

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Evaluation of experimental and finite element models of synthetic and cadaveric femora for pre-clinical design-analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Experimental investigation of bone remodelling using composite femurs

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Experimental validation of a finite element model of a composite tibia

scientific article published in April 2007

Experimental validation of a finite element model of a human cadaveric tibia.

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Experimental validation of a subject-specific finite element model of lumbar spine segment using digital image correlation

scientific article published in 2022

Extensive risk analysis of mechanical failure for an epiphyseal hip prothesis: a combined numerical-experimental approach

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Fatigue strength of PMMA bone cement mixed with gentamicin and barium sulphate vs pure PMMA

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Finite element and experimental models of cemented hip joint reconstructions can produce similar bone and cement strains in pre-clinical tests

scientific article published in April 2002

Finite element modeling of resurfacing hip prosthesis: estimation of accuracy through experimental validation

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Finite-element modeling of bones from CT data: sensitivity to geometry and material uncertainties

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Fracture and fatigue in osteocytes

scientific article published on 4 August 2014

Fractures of the proximal femur: correlates of radiological evidence of osteoporosis

scientific article published on 09 May 2007

Full-field strain distribution in multi-vertebra spine segments: An in vitro application of digital image correlation

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

Hierarchical electrospun tendon-ligament bioinspired scaffolds induce changes in fibroblasts morphology under static and dynamic conditions

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

High-resolution x-ray tomographic morphological characterisation of electrospun nanofibrous bundles for tendon and ligament regeneration and replacement

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate system of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—part I: ankle, hip, and spine

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Implant fixation in knee replacement: preliminary in vitro comparison of ceramic and metal cemented femoral components

scientific article published on 6 December 2008

In Vitro Experimental Studies and Numerical Modeling to Investigate the Biomechanical Effects of Surgical Interventions on the Spine

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

In vitro evidence of the structural optimization of the human skeletal bones

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In vitro long-term fatigue endurance of the secondary "Cement Injection Stem" hip prosthesis

scientific article published in June 2007

In vitro replication of spontaneous fractures of the proximal human femur

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In vitro testing of a novel limb salvage prosthesis for the distal femur

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

In vitro testing of the primary stability of the VerSys enhanced taper stem: a comparative study in intact and intraoperatively cracked femora

In-vitro method for assessing femoral implant-bone micromotions in resurfacing hip implants under different loading conditions

scientific article published in November 2007

Increased long-term failure risk associated with excessively thin cement mantle in cemented hip arthroplasty: a comparative in vitro study

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Influence of thigh muscles on the axial strains in a proximal femur during early stance in gait

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Initial stability of a new hybrid fixation hip stem: experimental measurement of implant-bone micromotion under torsional load in comparison with cemented and cementless stems

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Initial stability of uncemented hip stems: an in-vitro protocol to measure torsional interface motion.

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Interface biomechanics of the Anca Dual fit hip stem: an in vitro experimental study

scholarly article by L Monti et al published 2001 in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Intra-operative evaluation of cementless hip implant stability: a prototype device based on vibration analysis

scientific article published on 13 November 2006

Investigating the Mechanobiology of Cancer Cell-ECM Interaction Through Collagen-Based 3D Scaffolds

scientific article published on 06 March 2017

Local displacement and strain uncertainties in different bone types by digital volume correlation of synchrotron microtomograms.

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Long-term implant-bone fixation of the femoral component in total knee replacement

scientific article published in April 2008

Mechanical testing of bones: the positive synergy of finite-element models and in vitro experiments

scientific article published on June 2010

Mechanical validation of whole bone composite tibia models

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Methods for quantitative analysis of the primary stability in uncemented hip prostheses

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Micro Finite Element models of the vertebral body: Validation of local displacement predictions

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Modelling the fibrous tissue layer in cemented hip replacements: experimental and finite element methods

scientific article published in January 2004

Modular hip stems: determination of disassembly force of a neck-stem coupling

scientific article published in February 2007

Morphologically bioinspired hierarchical nylon 6,6 electrospun assembly recreating the structure and performance of tendons and ligaments

scientific article published on 29 June 2019

Multiscale hierarchical bioresorbable scaffolds for the regeneration of tendons and ligaments

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Multiscale investigation of the functional properties of the human femur.

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Multiscale modelling of the skeleton for the prediction of the risk of fracture

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Numerical description and experimental validation of a rheology model for non-Newtonian fluid flow in cancellous bone

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

On the biomechanical stability of cementless straight conical hip stems

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Outcome of hybrid stem fixation in osteoporotic female patients. A minimum five-year follow-up study.

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Partially cemented AncaDualFit hip stems do not fail in simulated active patients.

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Patient-specific mobility assessment to monitor recovery after total hip arthroplasty

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Pre-clinical validation of a new partially cemented femoral prosthesis by synergetic use of numerical and experimental methods

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Pre-clinical validation of joint prostheses: a systematic approach

scientific article published on 12 March 2008

Preclinical assessment of the long-term endurance of cemented hip stems. Part 1: effect of daily activities--a comparison of two load histories.

scientific article published in August 2007

Preclinical assessment of the long-term endurance of cemented hip stems. Part 2: in-vitro and ex-vivo fatigue damage of the cement mantle

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Predicting the subject-specific primary stability of cementless implants during pre-operative planning: preliminary validation of subject-specific finite-element models.

scientific article published on 16 January 2007

Primary Stability of Revision Acetabular Reconstructions Using an Innovative Bone Graft Substitute: A Comparative Biomechanical Study on Cadaveric Pelvises

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Primary stability of a press-fit cup in combination with impaction grafting in an acetabular defect model

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Primary stability of an anatomical cementless hip stem: a statistical analysis.

scientific article published on 31 May 2005

Radiopacity and fatigue characterization of a novel acrylic bone cement with sodium fluoride

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Re-use of explanted osteosynthesis devices: a reliable and inexpensive reprocessing protocol.

scientific article published on 4 March 2011

Reconstruction of proximal humeral fractures without screws using a reinforced bone substitute

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Relationship between bone-prosthesis bonding and load transfer in total hip reconstruction

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

Reproducible reference frame for in vitro testing of the human vertebrae

scientific article published on 19 October 2013

Sensitivity of the primary stability of a cementless hip stem to its position and orientation

scientific article published in July 2008

Shape and function of the diaphysis of the human tibia

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Simultaneous double rod and en-bloc direct vertebral rotation technique for correction of main thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: retrospective analysis of 14 cases

scientific article published in October 2016

Specimen-specific modeling of hip fracture pattern and repair.

scientific article published on 8 November 2013

Standard and line-to-line cementation of a polished short hip stem: Long-term in vitro implant stability

Standardization of hemipelvis alignment for in vitro biomechanical testing

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Stem damage during implantation of modular hip prostheses

scientific article published in July 2006

Strain distribution in the lumbar vertebrae under different loading configurations

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Strain distribution in the proximal Human femur during in vitro simulated sideways fall

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Strain distribution in the proximal human femoral metaphysis

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Strain uncertainties from two digital volume correlation approaches in prophylactically augmented vertebrae: Local analysis on bone and cement-bone microstructures

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Stress shielding and stress concentration of contemporary epiphyseal hip prostheses

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Structural behaviour and strain distribution of the long bones of the human lower limbs

scientific article published on 23 December 2009

Subject-specific finite element models can accurately predict strain levels in long bones

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Subject-specific finite element models implementing a maximum principal strain criterion are able to estimate failure risk and fracture location on human femurs tested in vitro

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Temperature and ageing condition effects on the characterization of acrylic bone cement

Tendon Fascicle-Inspired Nanofibrous Scaffold of Polylactic acid/Collagen with Enhanced 3D-Structure and Biomechanical Properties

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

The 'standardized femur program' proposal for a reference geometry to be used for the creation of finite element models of the femur.

scientific article published in September 1996

The Size of Simulated Lytic Metastases Affects the Strain Distribution on the Anterior Surface of the Vertebra

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

The effect on the fatigue strength of bone cement of adding sodium fluoride.

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The human proximal femur behaves linearly elastic up to failure under physiological loading conditions

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

The material mapping strategy influences the accuracy of CT-based finite element models of bones: an evaluation against experimental measurements.

scientific article published on 12 December 2006

The strain distribution in the lumbar anterior longitudinal ligament is affected by the loading condition and bony features: An in vitro full-field analysis

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Three-dimensional local measurements of bone strain and displacement: comparison of three digital volume correlation approaches.

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

To what extent can linear finite element models of human femora predict failure under stance and fall loading configurations?

scientific article published on 8 September 2014

Uncertainties of synchrotron microCT-based digital volume correlation bone strain measurements under simulated deformation

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

β-Chitin samples with similar microfibril arrangement change mechanical properties varying the degree of acetylation

scholarly article