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A preliminary study of bending stiffness alteration in shape changing nitinol plates for fracture fixation

Gavin Olender1, Ronny Pfeifer, Christian W Müller

  • 1Laboratory for Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Department of Orthopaedics, Hannover Medical School, Anna-von-Borries-Str. 1-7, 30625 Hannover, Germany. gavin.olender@ddh-gruppe.de

Annals of Biomedical Engineering
|February 3, 2011
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