Journal of medical devices.
Publisher:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Frequency: Quarterly
Country: United States
Language: English
Author(s):
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Start Year:2007 -
ISSN:
1932-6181 (Print)
1932-619X (Electronic)
1932-6181 (Linking)
1932-619X (Electronic)
1932-6181 (Linking)
Impact Factor
0.9
2022
| NLM ID: | 101299321 |
| (OCoLC): | 70662523 |
| LCCN: | 2006214527 |
| Classification: | W1 JO749V |
Applications of a New Handheld Reference Point Indentation Instrument Measuring Bone Material Strength. A novel, hand-held Reference Point Indentation (RPI) instrument, measures how well the bone of living patients and large animals resists indentation. The results presented here are reported in terms of Bone Material Strength, which is a normalized measure of how well the bone resists indentation, and is inversely related to the indentation distance into the bone. We present examples of the instrument's use in: (1) laboratory experiments on bone, including experiments through a layer of soft tissue, (2) three human clinical trials, two ongoing in Barcelona and at the Mayo Clinic, and one comple...