Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 8 , Pages 899-906 , October 2009

Can in vitro systems capture the characteristic differences between the flexion–extension kinematics of the healthy and TKA knee?

  • Kartik M. Varadarajan

      Affiliations

    • Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Rubash E. Harry

      Affiliations

    • Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Todd Johnson

      Affiliations

    • Zimmer Inc., Warsaw, IN, United States
    • ,
  • Guoan Li

      Affiliations

    • Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Bioengineering Laboratory, MGH/Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St., GRJ 1215, Boston, MA 02114, United States. Tel.: +1 617 726 6472; fax: +1 617 724 4392.

Received 7 January 2009 ,Revised 7 April 2009 ,Accepted 17 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.06.005

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 8 , Pages 899-906 , October 2009

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