X-ray-computed tomography (CT) is a well-established tissueimaging technique employed
in a variety of research and clinical settings. 1 Specifically, CT is a noninvasive clinical …

Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) is one of the most common leg injuries in athletes and
soldiers. The incidence of MTSS is reported as being between 4% and 35% in military …

The dentinal radicular microcrack is a difficult clinical problem to diagnose and treat, and it is
one of the most common reasons for tooth extraction. These microcracks start in the …

Abstract Introduction Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) in the subchondral bone in osteoarthritis
(OA) are suggested to be multifactorial, although the pathogenic mechanisms are unknown …

This review presents an overview of the characterization techniques available to
experimentally evaluate bone quality, defined as the geometric and material factors that …

Physiological wear and tear causes bone microdamage at several hierarchical levels, and
these have different biological consequences. Bone remodeling is widely held to be the …

Vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis are often the result of tissue damage
accumulated over time. Microscopic tissue damage (microdamage) generated in vivo is …

Bone quality is an important concept to explain bone fragility in addition to bone mass.
Among bone quality factors, microdamage which appears in daily life is thought to have a …

In this paper, effects of the implant thread pitch on the maximum Von Mises stresses were
evaluated in jaw bones and implant–abutment complex by a finite element method. The …

Conventional methods used to image and quantify microdamage in bone tissue are limited
to thin histological sections. Therefore recent studies have begun to investigate methods for …