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Innovation projects
A smart hip prosthesis
 
The French-Norwegian project with the objective to develop a smart hip prosthesis with an embedded pressure sensor, started in 2010. The project will explore the use of MEMS technology for in vivo applications and the sensor will provide data on the pressure inside a functional prosthesis joint through clinical research.

The project name MOPP-MEMS stands for Monitoring of Physiological Pressure by implantable MEMS. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems – or MEMS – are small-sized, lightweight, and low power-consuming devices that present new possibilities including wireless monitoring of physiological parameters inside the human body.  Monitoring of pressure is in general highly important in clinical practice and medical research. Reliable wireless in vivo pressure sensors are therefore strongly desired by the medical community.

In vivo sensors are now being used during surgery or for a short period after surgery, or for immediate inspection, but devices meant for permanent implantation hardly exist. For permanent or long-term implantation in the human body biocompatibility is one major obstacle for the success; in particular the immunologic reactions can alter sensor characteristics.
In MOPP-MEMS the ultra miniature pressure sensor from the French partner Tronics will be further developed to provide real-time display of physiologic data with adequate sensitivity at depths of several centimeters. Clinical research studies will be carried out at Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål. SINTEF is the initiator and coordinator of the project. The project is sponsored by The French Norwegian Foundation.
Contact: Ingelin Clausen, SINTEF Microsystems and Nanotechnology
 
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