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Lin CY, Wirtz T, LaMarca F, Hollister SJ. Structural and mechanical evaluations of a topology optimized titanium interbody fusion cage fabricated by selective laser melting process. J Biomed Mater Res A. November 2007;83(2):272-279.

Publication Date
November 2007

How Analyze was Used
“The scanned features were also compared with the original design by registering corresponding 3-D reconstructed images from standard micro-CT DICOM slides in a commercialized image process software, Analyze 5.0.”

Keywords
Alloys
Biocompatible Materials/metabolism
Biomechanical Phenomena
Lasers
Materials Testing/methods
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Spinal Fusion/methods
Titanium/metabolism
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Author Affiliation(s)
Spine Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US. (CYL, FL)

Scaffold Tissue Engineering Group, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US. (CYL, SJH)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US. (CYL, SJH)

Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology, Aachen, Germany. (TW)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US. (SJH)

Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US. (SJH)

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Tags: Alloys, Biocompatible Materials/metabolism, Biomechanical Phenomena, Lasers, Materials Testing/methods, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Spinal Fusion/methods, Titanium/metabolism, X-Ray Computed Tomography