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From: [email protected] (Partap S Khalsa)
Subject: Re: Strain Gage Applications in vivo

In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Terrance J. Dishongh) writes:
>Greeting
>
>I am starting work on a project where I am trying to make strain gages
>bond to bone in vivo or a period of several months.  I am currently
>using hydroxyapaptite back gages, and I have tried M-bonding the gages
>to the bone.  Apart from those two application methods there doesn't
>seem to be much else in the literature.  I have only an engineering 
>background not medical or biological.  I would be interest in any
>ideas about how to stimulte bone growth on the surface of cortical bone.
>
>Thanks for oyur help in Advance.
>
>Terrance J Dishongh
>[email protected]

Terrance,

  There is a good article entitled:  "A long-term in vivo bone strain
measurement device,"  Journal of Investigative Surgery 1989; 2(2): 195-206
by Szivek JA & Magee FP.
  I think you can find some others by searching MedLine.

Partap S. Khalsa, MS, DC, FACO
Post-Doc Research Fellow
U.Mass.Med. School