PURPOSE: Fractures in vertebral bodies are among the most common complications of osteoporosis and other bone diseases. However, studies that aim to predict future fractures and assess general spine health must manually delineate vertebral bodies and...
To investigate the effect of ultrasonic parameter settings on maximum temperatures in the drilling site and penetration time and determine the most suitable parameters for efficient and safe robot-based ultrasonic bone drilling in spinal surgery. F...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
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BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Vertebral body tethering is the most popular nonfusion treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. The effect of the tether cord on the spine can be segmentally assessed by comparing the angle between two adjacent screws (inter...