Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 7 , Pages 733-741 , September 2009

Relevance of collagen piezoelectricity to “Wolff's Law”: A critical review

  • Andrew C. Ahn

      Affiliations

    • Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
    • Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
    • Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, 401 Park Drive, Suite 22A-West, Boston, MA 02215, United States. Tel.: +1 617 384 8550; fax: +1 617 384 8555.
    • ,
  • Alan J. Grodzinsky

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Received 17 November 2008 ,Revised 1 February 2009 ,Accepted 2 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.02.006

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 7 , Pages 733-741 , September 2009

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