Assessment of non-contacting optical methods to measure wear and surface roughness in ceramic total disc replacements
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 24292899
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1177/0954411915577119
- Title of journal
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Proceedings. Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
- Article number
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- First page
- 245
- Volume
- 229
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0954-4119
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The mass of ceramic wear debris from spinal implants is undetectable using conventional measurement techniques and new techniques are required (a problem identified in doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2008.04.015). This paper, for the first time, has developed a technique that enables ceramic wear debris to be measured. The work builds on the fundamental understanding of the wear of disc replacements developed through EPSRC EP/F014562/1 and the results are being used to help develop new spinal implants with S14 Biospine Implants (France) in the EU-funded (Grant number: 604935) European Industrial Doctorate in Spinal Implant Design (General Manager, s14implants).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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