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Ultrasound monitoring of the setting of calcium-based bone cements

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In this study, the setting of calcium-sulphate (CS) and -phosphate (CP) based bone cements (BCs) was monitored by ultrasound. The objective was to link acoustic and material properties of ceramic-based BCs from the early stages of the cement curing process. The powder phase of the CS-cement consisted of CS hemihydrate; the CP-cement was a mixture of alpha-tricalcium phosphate, CS dihydrate and hydroxyapatite. For the CS-cement, the acoustic impedance z c(t), the speed of sound c c(t) and the density ρc(t) were measured at the interval of liquid-to-powder ratios LPRs from 0.20 to 3.00 ml/g. For the CP-cement, the acoustic characteristics obtained were the z c(t) and the reflection coefficient R p,c(t), and the LPRs ranged from 0.30 to 0.40 ml/g. The resulting acoustic properties indicated that CP- and CS-cements exhibited distinctly different curing behaviour; while CS-cement expanded, CP-cement shrank with time.

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The authors thank public funding received for this work through project MAT2010-19431 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain). J.E. Carlson would also like to thank the technical faculty at Luleå University of Technology for financial support.

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  1. Division of Bioengineering & Biomaterials, Interdepartment Research Group for the Applied Scientific Collaboration (IRGASC), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Avda. Diagonal 647, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    M. D. Vlad, L. González, S. Gómez, J. López & E. Fernández

  2. Faculty of Medical Bioengineering, Gr. T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Str. Kogalniceanu 9-13, 700454, Iasi, Romania

    M. D. Vlad

  3. Division of Systems and Interaction, Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87, Luleå, Sweden

    J. E. Carlson

  4. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Avda. Diagonal 647, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    E. Fernández

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Vlad, M.D., González, L., Gómez, S. et al. Ultrasound monitoring of the setting of calcium-based bone cements. J Mater Sci: Mater Med 23, 1563–1568 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10856-012-4636-0

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