Electronics inside of human bones to measure forces

[happylex]

I think people here can find this interesting. My colleagues from Berlin work with a kind of 'RFID' circuit to measure the forces inside of knee and hip joints. This helps us to identify why problems with artificial joint implants occur and how to design better implants.

This is a 9-channel system:


An article can be read here (not sure if the full document is public, but the abstract is).