Adaptations of trabecular bone to low magnitude vibrations result in more uniform stress and strain under load

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-20

  Judex, Stefan ^a   Boyd, Steve ^b   Quin, Yi Xian ^a   Turner, Simon ^c   Ye, Kenny ^a   Müller, Ralph ^b   Rubin, Clinton ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone adaptation; Bone formation; Finite element modeling; Mechanical properties; Mechanical stimuli; Mechanical strain and stress; Noninvasive; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BONE ADAPTATION;

BONE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METHODOLOGY; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; STATISTICS; STIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VIBRATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BONE DENSITY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; STATISTICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VIBRATION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0038487127     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1535414     Document Type: Article

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