A patient-specific finite element methodology to predict damage accumulation in vertebral bodies under axial compression, sagittal flexion and combined loads

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 477-487

  Chevalier, Yan ^a   Charlebois, Mathieu ^a   Pahr, Dieter ^a   Varga, Peter ^a   Heini, Paul ^b   Schneider, Erich ^c   Zysset, Philippe ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Damage; Finite element model; Plasticity; Stiffness; Strength; Vertebral body

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE; SPINE FRACTURE;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61549140661     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255840802078022     Document Type: Article

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