Femoral stiffness and strength critically depend on loading angle: A parametric study in a mouse-inbred strain

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 122-129

  Voide, Romain ^a   Van Lenthe, G Harry ^a   Müller, Ralph ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aluminum phantom; Biomechanical testing; Loading direction; Mouse strain; Proximal femur

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM METALLOGRAPHY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; LIGHT METALS; LOADING; LOADS (FORCES); MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POLYPROPYLENES; STRAIN; TESTING; TISSUE;

(8 HYDROXY QUINOLINE) ALUMINUM; BIOMECHANICAL TESTING; BONE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BONE STIFFNESS; BONE TISSUES; FEMORAL HEADS; HUMAN BONES; HUMAN FEMORA; IMAGE-BASED; LINEAR DEPENDENCES; LOADING ANGLE; LOADING DIRECTION (LD); LOADING DIRECTION INFLUENCE; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; PROXIMAL FEMUR; SMALL VARIATIONS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6);

STIFFNESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE STRENGTH; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM;

ANIMALS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 44949219426     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2008.019     Document Type: Article

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