Biophysics of Bone and Cartilage (BBC)

The BBC group in University of Eastern Finland is globally one of the leading research groups in cartilage and bone biophysics and -engineering. The group has extensively contributed to basic, applied and clinical research of the musculoskeletal disorders during the past 20 years.

Published items in each year	Citations in each year

Total times cited:	14070
Citing articles:	7574
Average citations per item:	23.14	Source: Web of Science
h-index:	60	Updated: Aug 17th 2018

Most recent BBC publications:

1. Sarin JK, Te Moller NCR, Mancini IAD, Brommer H, Visser J, Malda J, van Weeren PR, Afara IO and Toyras J. Arthroscopic near infrared spectroscopy enables simultaneous quantitative evaluation of articular cartilage and subchondral bone in vivo. Sci Rep. 2018 Sep 7;8(1):13409. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31670-5.
   
   
2. Myller KAH, Honkanen JTJ, Jurvelin JS, Saarakkala S, Toyras J and Vaananen SP. Method for Segmentation of Knee Articular Cartilages Based on Contrast-Enhanced CT Images. Ann Biomed Eng. 2018 Aug 21. pii: 10.1007/s10439-018-2081-z. doi: 10.1007/s10439-018-2081-z.
   
   
3. Mohammadi A, Ebrahimi M, Kaartinen S, Jarnefelt G, Karhu J and Julkunen P. Individual characterization of fast intracortical facilitation with paired biphasic-wave transcranial magnetic stimulation. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2018.2864311.
   
   
4. Ketola JH, Karhula SS, Finnila MAJ, Korhonen RK, Herzog W, Siltanen S, Nieminen MT and Saarakkala S. Iterative and discrete reconstruction in the evaluation of the rabbit model of osteoarthritis. Sci Rep. 2018 Aug 13;8(1):12051. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30334-8.
   
   
5. Pouran B, Arbabi V, Bajpayee AG, van Tiel J, Toyras J, Jurvelin JS, Malda J, Zadpoor AA and Weinans H. Multi-scale imaging techniques to investigate solute transport across articular cartilage. J Biomech. 2018 Sep 10;78:10-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.06.012. Epub 2018 Jun 22.