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:	15131
Citing articles:	8172
Average citations per item:	23.31	Source: Web of Science
h-index:	63	Updated: May 12th 2019

Most recent BBC publications:

1. Grassi L, Vaananen SP, Ristinmaa M, Jurvelin JS and Isaksson H. Correction to: Prediction of femoral strength using 3D finite element models reconstructed from DXA images: validation against experiments. Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2019 May 27. pii: 10.1007/s10237-019-01173-x. doi: 10.1007/s10237-019-01173-x.
   
   
2. Toth F, Johnson CP, Mills B, Nissi MJ, Nykanen O, Ellermann J, Ludwig KD, Tompkins M and Carlson CS. Evaluation of the Suitability of Miniature Pigs as an Animal Model of Juvenile Osteochondritis Dissecans. J Orthop Res. 2019 May 22. doi: 10.1002/jor.24353.
   
   
3. Saukko AEA, Turunen MJ, Honkanen MKM, Lovric G, Tiitu V, Honkanen JTJ, Grinstaff MW, Jurvelin JS and Toyras J. Simultaneous Quantitation of Cationic and Non-ionic Contrast Agents in Articular Cartilage Using Synchrotron MicroCT Imaging. Sci Rep. 2019 May 8;9(1):7118. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-43276-6.
   
   
4. Leppanen T, Kulkas A and Toyras J. The hypoxic burden: also known as the desaturation severity parameter. Eur Heart J. 2019 May 7. pii: 5486507. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz271.
   
   
5. Sarin JK, Nykanen O, Tiitu V, Mancini IAD, Brommer H, Visser J, Malda J, van Weeren PR, Afara IO and Toyras J. Arthroscopic Determination of Cartilage Proteoglycan Content and Collagen Network Structure with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Ann Biomed Eng. 2019 May 6. pii: 10.1007/s10439-019-02280-7. doi: 10.1007/s10439-019-02280-7.