Biomechanical analysis of anterior cruciate ligament graft substitutes

Author

Krishna, K.V. ; Vidyasagar, J.V.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Osmania Univ., Hyderabad, India

fYear

1995

fDate

15-18 Feb 1995

Abstract

We report the elastic properties of human normal anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in comparison with various ACL graft substitutes such as central or medial or lateral one third of patellar tendon, semitendinosus, meniscal tissues, tendoachilles, iliotibial band in cigarette rolled, untwisted and different twisted forms for arthroscopy guided ACL reconstruction, using the double transducer ultrasonic pulse transmission technique. The elasticity and rigidity parameters derived, were compared by taking ACL as being equal to 100 percent. Our results indicated that the strength of the graft substitute depended upon number of collagen bundles per unit area and elastic properties depended upon the pretensioning of the graft. The iliotibial band twisted six times was found to be isoelastic with normal ACL

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical ultrasonics; elastic moduli; mechanical strength; prosthetics; ultrasonic transmission; ultrasonic velocity; ACL graft substitutes; anterior cruciate ligament graft substitutes; arthroscopy guided ACL reconstruction; biomechanical analysis; cigarette rolled form; collagen bundles; double transducer ultrasonic pulse transmission technique; elastic properties; human normal anterior cruciate ligament; iliotibial band; meniscal tissues; osteoarthrosis; patellar tendon; pretensioning; rigidity parameters; semitendinosus; strength; tendoachilles; twisted form; untwisted form; Biological materials; Biological tissues; Bones; Elasticity; Humans; Joints; Knee; Ligaments; Testing; Ultrasonic transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995 and 14th Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of India. An International Meeting, Proceedings of the First Regional Conference., IEEE

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2711-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RCEMBS.1995.533061

Filename

533061