Morphology-elasticity relationships using decreasing fabric information of human trabecular bone from three major anatomical locations

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 793-800

  Gross, Thomas ^a   Pahr, Dieter H ^a   Zysset, Philippe K ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Fabric; Finite element method; Human cancellous bone; Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INFORMATION USE; MORPHOLOGY;

ANATOMICAL LOCATIONS; ANATOMICAL REGIONS; CANCELLOUS BONE; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; ELASTICITY MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING (FEM); HUMAN CANCELLOUS BONE; HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE; MODELING PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE POWER;

ELASTICITY;

AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BONE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIUS; SPINE; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY;

AGED; BONE AND BONES; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RADIUS; SPINE;

EID: 84879879910     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-012-0443-2     Document Type: Article

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