Numéro
J. Phys. IV France
Volume 04, Numéro C5, Mai 1994
3ème Congrés français d'acoustique
3rd French conference on acoustics
Page(s) C5-1239 - C5-1242
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:19945274
3ème Congrés français d'acoustique
3rd French conference on acoustics

J. Phys. IV France 04 (1994) C5-1239-C5-1242

DOI: 10.1051/jp4:19945274

Mesure quantitative de la porosité résiduelle des ciments chirurgicaux par ultrasons de haute fréquence

P. PERNOD1, C. DELEBARRE1, P. HERNIGOU2 and H. FRANCES1

1  Institut d'Electronique et de Micro-électronique du Nord, Département Opto-Acousto-Electronique, IEMN-DOAE, UMR 9929 du CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Lille, BP. 48, 59651 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France
2  Hopital Universitaire Henri Mondor, Service d'Orthopédie, 51 Av. Mal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94000 Créteil, France


Abstract
A high frequency ultrasonic quantitative characterization of the porosity of biological cements for the fixation of prosthetic components has been realised. The images were acquired with a C-Scan system using a focused 50 MHz transducer. The images were treated by a histogram processing technique associated with a segmentation algorithm. The use of this system has allowed us to demonstrate that a decrease in porosity could be obtained by a polymerization under a high power insonification at 500 kHz.



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