Safely Fixed Hip Prostheses
Monday, January 26, 2009 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
Artificial hip joints are firmly anchored to the patient's damaged bone by screws. But which parts of the bone will safely hold the screws in place? A simulation model is to calculate the strength of the bone from computer tomography images.
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