Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 7 , Pages 775-783 , September 2009

Image analysis of soft-tissue in-growth and attachment into highly porous alumina ceramic foam metals

  • A. Khalil

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
    • Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine/The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, United States. Tel.: +1 207 581 3911; fax: +1 207 581 3902.
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  • C. Aponte

      Affiliations

    • OrthoBiologics, R&D, Stryker Orthopaedics, Mahwah, NJ, United States
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  • R. Zhang

      Affiliations

    • OrthoBiologics, R&D, Stryker Orthopaedics, Mahwah, NJ, United States
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  • T. Davisson

      Affiliations

    • OrthoBiologics, R&D, Stryker Orthopaedics, Mahwah, NJ, United States
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  • I. Dickey

      Affiliations

    • Adult Reconstruction, Orthopaedic Oncology, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, ME, United States
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  • D. Engelman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
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  • M. Hawkins

      Affiliations

    • OrthoBiologics, R&D, Stryker Orthopaedics, Mahwah, NJ, United States
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  • M. Mason

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine/The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, United States
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Received 13 June 2008 ,Revised 13 February 2009 ,Accepted 16 February 2009.

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PII: S1350-4533(09)00068-X

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.02.007

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 7 , Pages 775-783 , September 2009

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