Bone and muscle assessment in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty using HU based analysis

• Main Authors: Þröstur Pétursson (Author), Benedikt Magnússon (Author), Benedikt Helgason (Author), Gigja Magnúsdóttir (Author), Grétar Halldórsson (Author), Jan Tribel (Author), Halldór Jónsson jr (Author), Paolo Gargiulo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: PAGEPress Publications, 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is performed with or without the use of bone cement. The lack of reliable clinical guidelines for deciding which one to implement has encouraged this approach of joint clinical and engineering with the following objectives: 1. Validate quadriceps muscles and femur bone a...