Clinical Biomechanics
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 50-55 , January 2010

In vitro measurement of interface micromotion and crack in cemented total hip arthroplasty systems with different surface roughness

  • Donok Choi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Youngbae Park

      Affiliations

    • R&D Center, CUREXO, Inc., Anyang, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Yong-San Yoon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +82 42 350 3022; fax: +82 42 350 3210.
    • ,
  • Bassam A. Masri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Received 23 October 2008 ,Accepted 12 August 2009.

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PII: S0268-0033(09)00198-3

doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2009.08.008

Clinical Biomechanics
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 50-55 , January 2010

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