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  title info:
    title: Biomaterials
    sub title: A Tantalus Experience
  name:
    name part: Helsen, Jozef A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Missirlis, Yannis.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 340 p. online resource.
  abstract: Replacement of a failing hip joint or other defective organs in the human body by artificial ‘spare parts’ has significantly improved our quality of life. These spare parts have to meet a wide spectrum of mechanical, chemical and design requirements. In this book, the properties and selection of materials for such `spare parts’ are deduced from case studies at the start of each chapter. Hard tissue replacements (joints, long bones, dental), soft tissue (heart valves) and tissue engineering are included. The chapters also detail the three generic classes of materials: alloys (including shape memory alloys), ceramics & glasses and polymers. Separate chapters are devoted to the toxicity of implants, the metals zirconium(-zirconium oxide), tantalum, niobium and metallic glasses, soluble metals and Rapid Prototyping techniques for the fabrication of custom made prostheses. The book concludes by a chapter on water as water is always ‘there’ and conditions the interaction between body and implant. Water is the very matrix of life on earth. A peculiarity of the book is its ‘perspective view’, meaning that the authors looked behind the present biomaterials’ décor and included historical backgrounds (real and mythological), future developments, and the relation to nature (plants and geology).
  table of contents: The Perfect Human Machine -- The Failing Human Machine -- Corrosion -- Intoxicated by Implants? -- Zirconium and Other Newcomers -- Long Bones -- Layer by Layer -- Metal Implants Bound to Disappear -- A 7,000 Year Old Story: Ceramics -- Dental Materials -- The Perfect Prosthesis? -- Heart Valve Substitutes -- Tissue Engineering: Regenerative Medicine -- Water -- Closing Dinner Speech.
  note: by Jozef A. Helsen, Yannis Missirlis.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Orthopedics
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biomaterials
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biomaterials
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Orthopedics
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  classification: QH505
  classification: 571.4
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
  identifier: 9783642125324
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12532-4
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    record creation date: 101109
    record change date: 20151125211305.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-12532-4