Biomedical Device Uses Nanotechnology to Monitor Bone Healing
Filed in archive Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation , Nanomedicine by ruth on October 24, 2006

Careful monitoring of how patients are healing will help them recover as quickly as possible and resume normal activities with less chance of stressing the fracture during recovery and rehabilitation. It also allows the surgeon to more accurately decide when it is safe to send patients home from the hospital with their new implants.
The device will also cut down the need for X-rays to monitor bone functionality, reducing costs and exposure to radiation. And the sensor can detect and identify bone loss before it's even visible on a radiograph.
The technology, for which a provisional US patent application has already been filed, may also be applied to artificial knees, hip replacement and other joint therapy.
Source: University of Alberta
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