Heterogeneous linear elastic trabecular bone modelling using micro-CT attenuation data and experimentally measured heterogeneous tissue properties

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2589-2596

  Harrison, Noel M ^a   McDonnell, Pat F ^a   O'Mahoney, Denis C ^a   Kennedy, Oran D ^b,c   O'Brien, Fergal J ^b,c   McHugh, Peter E ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

CT; Cancellous; Grey values; Nanoindentation; Trabecular; Vertebra; Voxel

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; APPLIED (CO); ATTENUATION DATA; BONE TISSUES; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; ELSEVIER (CO); FINITE ELEMENT (FE) MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA); FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE (MARC2000); HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LINEAR ELASTICS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO CT); MICRO CT; MICRO SCALES; NANOINDENTATION TESTING; NEW APPROACHES; TISSUE PROPERTIES; TRABECULAR BONES; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CANCELLOUS BONE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELASTIC CARTILAGE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRABECULAR BONE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; ELASTICITY; SHEEP; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48149106507     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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