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Joint Replacement Biomechanics This project is no longer active. Head: Branislav Jaramaz Mailing address: MRT Center The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 (412) 268 6553 (Jim Osborn, Executive Director) (412) 268 6436 (FAX) Associated center: MRTC Associated lab/group: Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

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Project Description

Engineers at MRCAS and COR are developing software simulations to test joint kinematics and are creating Finite Element Analysis models to predict bone stresses during hip replacement surgery.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Anthony M Di Gioia, III, MD	Adj Prof, CEE/Assoc.Res Profess,Robotics, RI/CEE	tony@pfcusa.org
	Omar Ghattas	Associate Professor, CivE (Adjunct)	omar@cmu.edu
	Branislav Jaramaz	Associate Research Professor	branko@icaos.org

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Towards More Capable and Less Invasive Robotic Surgery in Orthopaedics
  R. O'Toole, D. Simon, B. Jaramaz, O. Ghattas, M. Blackwell, L. Kallivokas, F. Morgan, C. Visnic, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Robotics in Medicine (CVRMed '95), April, 1995.
  Download: pdf [103 KB], ps.gz [30 KB] copyrighted

• Finite Element Pre-operative Simulation Of Cementless Hip Replacement
  C.D. Visnic, R.H. Reid, O. Ghattas, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and B. Jaramaz
  Proceedings Simulation Conference, December, 1994, pp. 856 - 860. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [432 KB] copyrighted