DT-MRI based computation of collagen fiber deformation in human articular cartilage: A feasibility study

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2447-2463

  Pierce, David M ^a   Trobin, Werner ^a   Raya, José G ^b   Trattnig, Siegfried ^c   Bischof, Horst ^a   Glaser, Christian ^d   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,e  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Constitutive modeling; Diffusion tensor; Finite element simulation; Hyperviscoelasticity; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; ARTICULAR SURFACES; BEFORE AND AFTER; BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; COLLAGEN FIBER; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; CONSTITUTIVE MODELING; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EIGEN-VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBER DIRECTION; FIBER DISPERSION; FIBER MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FUNCTIONAL STATE; HUMAN ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; IN-VIVO; INDENTATION EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; SPECIFIC FINITE ELEMENT; ULTRA-HIGH;

BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; EDGE DETECTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FABRICS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGAMENTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; TENSORS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COLLAGEN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 77954656403     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-9990-9     Document Type: Article

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