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Two Ultrasonic Techniques to Evaluate Bone Remodeling About Femoral Prostheses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
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Ultrasonic techniques have been used extensively to measure the anisotropic elastic properties of calcified tissue [1–4]. Yoon and Katz [3] have derived the equations relating the elastic constants to the technical moduli: Young's modulus, shear modulus, and the bulk modulus. In order to make these calculations they assumed that bone was transversely isotropic (hexagonally symmetric). Abendschein and Hyatt [1] demonstrated that there was a good correlation between the longitudinal modulus (E3) of bone experimentally measured with ultrasound and mechanical techniques. Some investigators have even used these techniques to determine the different mechanical properties of pathological bone (osteopetrotic, osteoporotic) [4].
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