Parametric equations to represent the profile of the human intervertebral disc in the transverse plane

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 939-945

  Little, J Paige ^a   Pearcy, M J ^a   Pettet, G J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anulus boundary; Intervertebral disc; Nucleus boundary; Transverse geometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHM;

BIOMECHANICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PARAMETRIC TEST; PHOTOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 34548789542     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0242-6     Document Type: Article

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