Bone health status is largely absent in South Africa, the main reasons being the absence
and cost-effectiveness of specific screening equipment for assessing bone mineral density …

Metatarsal stress fracture is a common injury observed in athletes and military personnel.
Mechanical fatigue is believed to play an important role in the etiology of stress fracture …

Hip fracture represents a major health problem facing elderly people. Hip prosthesis is the
greatest challenge of biomaterial design to meet the needs of joint arthroplasty. The loads …

This book provides comprehensive mechanobiological insights into bone, including the
microstructure of cancellous bone and its realistic loading in the human body. This approach …

Tissue-engineered scaffolds should mimic, as closely as possible, the one of the tissues to
be replaced. Hence, mechanical tests are of paramount importance. However, as there are …

Osteoporosis is a common disease affecting 60% of women and 30% of men over 50 years.
Quantitative ultrasound is a reliable technique for the bone assessment and predicting …

The risk of hip fracture in people with type one diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is reported to be 7
to 12 times greater than in those without T1DM, and this increased risk is evident in both …

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Rotated-Cone-UTE-Sequenz (RC-UTE), eine 3D k-Raum-
Auslesetechnik mit homogener Verteilung der Abtastdichte, vorgestellt. Diese 3D MR …

With recent advances in imaging technologies, we are acquiring a better understanding of
the complex hierarchy of bone and how bone adapts its geometry, microarchitecture and …

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