Anatomic variation in the elastic anisotropy of cortical bone tissue in the human femur

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-263

  Espinoza Orías, Alejandro A ^a   Deuerling, Justin M ^a   Landrigan, Matthew D ^a   Renaud, John E ^a   Roeder, Ryan K ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL BONES; ELASTIC ANISOTROPIES; ELASTIC SYMMETRIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FEMUR LENGTHS; HUMAN CORTICAL BONES; HUMAN FEMORA; INHOMOGENEITY; MECHANO BIOLOGIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; TISSUE DENSITIES; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; ULTRASONIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANISOTROPY; BONE; TOOLS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CORTICAL BONE; DENSITY; DIAPHYSIS; ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; FEMUR; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE;

EID: 61449205202     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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