Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 7 , Pages 808-813 , September 2007

Consistent hydration of intervertebral discs during in vitro testing

  • Gerd Huber

      Affiliations

    • AO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland
    • Department of Biomechanics, Hamburg University of Science and Technology, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Biomechanics Section, Hamburg University of Technology, Denickestraße 15, 21073 Hamburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 40 42878 3153; fax: +49 40 42878 2996.
    • ,
  • Michael M. Morlock

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomechanics, Hamburg University of Science and Technology, Germany
    • ,
  • Keita Ito

      Affiliations

    • AO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Received 28 April 2005 ,Revised 31 August 2006 ,Accepted 1 September 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.09.001

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 7 , Pages 808-813 , September 2007

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