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Volume 53, Issue 1 , Pages 84-89 , January 2005

Visualization of femorotibial contact in total knee arthroplasty using X-ray fluoroscopy

Takaharu Yamazaki
- Department of Medical Robotics and Image Sciences, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +81-6-6879-3564; fax: +81-6-6879-3569.
Tetsu Watanabe
- Department of Orthopaedics, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Yoshikazu Nakajima
- Department of Medical Robotics and Image Sciences, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Kazuomi Sugamoto
- Department of Orthopaedics, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tetsuya Tomita
- Department of Orthopaedics, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Daisuke Maeda
- Department of Radiology, Osaka University Hospital, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Wataru Sahara
- Department of Orthopaedics, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Hideki Yoshikawa
- Department of Orthopaedics, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Shinichi Tamura
- Department of Medical Robotics and Image Sciences, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Received 15 September 2003 ,Accepted 17 November 2003.

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