A rolling-gliding wear simulator for the investigation of tribological material pairings for application in total knee arthroplasty.docVIP

Richter et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010, 9:24 /content/9/1/24 RESEARCH Open Access A rolling-gliding wear simulator for the Research investigation of tribological material pairings for application in total knee arthroplasty Berna I Richter?1, Sven Ostermeier2, Anke Turger3, Berend Denkena3 and Christof Hurschler*?1 Abstract * Correspondence: Christof.Hurschler@annastift.de Background: Material wear testing is an important technique in the development and 1 Department of Orthopaedic, evaluation of materials for use in implant for total knee arthroplasty. Since a knee joint indu