The aim of this project is to design a system capable to quantitatively monitor the healing process. A simple harmonic vibration motion is applied to the system in three conditions (the healthy bone, the completely fractured bone and the intermediate (healing) bone). The system response is recorded and used to calculate resonance frequency as an indication of the system stiffness. The results show that the healthy bone had the highest resonance frequency indicating the highest stiffness and the completely fractured bone was the opposite (lowest). The healing bone is expected to be somewhere in between. This indicated that the system could be used to monitor in the future.
Instrumentation of an External Fixator for Force and Bone Healing Process Monitoring / Fakih, Fatima Ba; Stefanini, Cesare; Dario, Paolo; Mazzoleni, Stefano (ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND COMPUTING). - In: Advances in Intelligent Systems and ComputingGEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND : Springer Verlag, 2018. - ISBN 9783319738871. - pp. 456-461 [10.1007/978-3-319-73888-8_71]
Instrumentation of an External Fixator for Force and Bone Healing Process Monitoring
Mazzoleni, Stefano
2018
Abstract
The aim of this project is to design a system capable to quantitatively monitor the healing process. A simple harmonic vibration motion is applied to the system in three conditions (the healthy bone, the completely fractured bone and the intermediate (healing) bone). The system response is recorded and used to calculate resonance frequency as an indication of the system stiffness. The results show that the healthy bone had the highest resonance frequency indicating the highest stiffness and the completely fractured bone was the opposite (lowest). The healing bone is expected to be somewhere in between. This indicated that the system could be used to monitor in the future.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
