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In-Vitro Orthopaedic Research

• Download the In-Vitro Orthopaedic Research Information Sheet

  Define world and local segment coordinate systems consistent with your needs.
• Instrument multi-segment cadaver specimens to track virtual joint centers, insertion points and other landmarks.
• Track forces applied by MTS and Instron Machines or loads applied to ligaments together with resultant segment motions.
• Analyze segment motions pre and post surgical interventions.
• Register CT/MRI scans of bone surfaces or use The MotionMonitor® Mesh Generator to digitize disarticulated bone geometry. Create wire frames or mesh files.
• Play back the activity to animate the mesh files in the detail window to observe the interaction of bone surfaces.
• Export mesh file, kinematic and kinetic data to popular Finite Element Modeling software.

Here a "sawbone" spine specimen is instrumented with Ascension MiniBirds. The world axes and two vertebral bodies’ local coordinate axes are then defined by a digitizing process. The MTS applies forces to the specimen. The MotionMonitor® synchronously captures, processes and plays back the activity in real time.

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