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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This project is no longer active.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

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.

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

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