Journal Papers

        Experimental Evaluation of the Holding Power / Stiffness of the Self-Tapping Bone Screws         in Normal and Osteoporotic Bone Material, Clinical Biomechanics, June 2006.

        The Effect of Pilot Hole Size on the Insertion Torque and Pullout Strength of Self-tapping         Cortical Bone Screws in Osteoporotic Bone, in press, Journal of Trauma, 2006.

         Pullout Strength Analysis of the Self Tapping Screws Inserted to Different Depths, accepted      for publication in American Journal of Orthopaedics, 2005.

        Biomechanical Comparison of the Uniflex Nail, the Vector Nail and the Long Gamma Nail in     the Treatment of Unstable Subtrochanteric Femur Fractures, submitted to Journal of Trauma,     2006 

        Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of Effect of Screw Size and Engagement of Cutting     Flutes on the Failure Force of Self-Tapping Screws During Pullout, submitted to Journal of         Biomechanical Engineering, 2007.

     

    Conference Proceeding

       

    Cephalad Migrating Herniated Discs: A Clinical Study Directing Surgical Approach, Mid-America Orthopaedic Association Conference 2007, Boca Raton.

    Importance of impact magnitude when assembling the femoral head onto Morse taper femoral stems components for total hip arthroplasty, Canadian Orthopaedic Association 2007, Halifax.

    Second Generation Volar Surface Distal Radius Bone Plates – Phase 1, CUGSR 2007, Akron

    Effect of Pilot Hole Size on the Insertion Torque and Pullout Strength of Self-tapping Cortical Bone Screws in Osteoporotic Bone, American Society of Biomechanics 2006, Blacksburg.  

    Development of Fatigue Testing Protocol and Image Based Analysis of Small Fragment Cortical Bone Screws, American Society of Biomechanics 2006, Blacksburg. 

    Experimental Comparison of the treatment of Unstable Subtrochanteric Femurl Fractures using Uniflex Nail, Vector Nail and Long Gamma Nail, World Biomechanics 2006, Munich.  

    Fatigue testing protocol for self-tapping metallic cortical bone screw, CUGSR 2005, Akron. 

    Comparison of the Holding Power/Stiffness of the Self-tapping Bone Screws in Normal and Osteoporotic Bone Material, BMES 2005, Baltimore.  

    Evaluation of the effect of cutting flutes of self-tapping bone screws inserted in osteoporotic bone. BMES 2005, Baltimore. 

    A Biomechanical Study of the Pullout Strength of the Self-tapping Bone Screws in Osteoporotic Bone Material Inserted to Different Depths, Int. Society of Biomechanics Conference 2005, Cleveland. 

    Pullout Strength Variance Among Self Tapping Screws Inserted to Different Depths, BMES 2004, Philadelphia. 

    Using Registration and Segmentation to Develop a Finite Element Model of a Hand from Medical Images, BMES 2004, Philadelphia.

    Pullout Strength Analysis of the Self Tapping Screws Inserted to Different Depths, CUGSR 2004, Akron.

    Finite Element Modeling of the Bones in the Human Hand, CUGSR 2004, Akron. 

    A New Method to Develop the Finite Element Model of the Bones in the Hand from CT Scans, NEBC 2004, New England.

    Non-Invasive Acceleration Measurements at the Finger Joint, Review paper for Dr. Reddy. 

    3-Dimensional Modeling of a Hand Using CT scans and MRI, Master’s Thesis, The University of Akron, 2003.

    New Input Devices for Navigating Large MS-CT Studies Including the Multi-phasic Cardiac CT Review, RSNA 2003, Chicago.