Total Hip Arthroplasty
Polyethylene wear acetabular cup monitoring by digitized radiography evaluated
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, November 2nd, 2003
"The aim of this study was to assess polyethylene wear in a total hip prosthesis by digitized radiography of the whole pelvis in the anteroposterior (AP) plane," investigators in France report.
"The three-dimensional (3-D) pose of the nonmetal-backed acetubular cup, materialized by its metal ring and the femoral head made of metal or ceramic, was estimated using interactive algebraic algorithms with inner bias correction and bootstrapping for variance reduction," wrote L. Sarry and colleagues, Auvergne University, Medical Faculty.
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