Design of High Viscosity Cement Gun for Vertebroplasty

Master thesis (2011)

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J. Dankelman (mentor)
E.R. Valstar (mentor)
G. Kraaij (mentor)
Programme
BME (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2011 Gupta, P.
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Published Date

22-08-2011

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Programme

BME

Abstract

Vertebroplasty is a minimally invasive procedure for treating spine. Cement leakage is problem occurring from usage of low viscosity bone cements. High viscosity bone cements are difficult to inject with current design of cement gun due to very high injection forces. A new design of cement gun is developed for injection of high viscosity bone cements with low injection forces.