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Graduate Student Fellowships 2006/2007
Katy Keenan
Mechanical Eng. & Radiology
Professors S. Delp, G. Gold and G. Beaupre |
Cartilage is a complex tissue, capable of withstanding large compressive loads during everyday activities. Determining the mechanical properties of articular cartilage is important for understanding how the tissue behaves/ in vivo/, how the tissue properties might change with age, injury, or disease, and also how we might try to replicate the function of cartilage using tissue engineered constructs. The first step of my research is to develop a robust and computationally-efficient method to calculate cartilage material properties using creep or stress-relaxation indentation experiments. The next step is to develop non-invasive methods to determine the cartilage properties using magnetic resonance imaging. |
