Applications of Computed Tomography (CT) in environmental soil and plant sciences

H Zhang, H He, Y Gao, A Mady, V Filipović… - Soil and Tillage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Computed tomography (CT) in combination with advanced image processing can be used to
non-invasively and non-destructively visualize complex interiors of living and non-living …

Patient-specific finite element modeling of bones

S Poelert, E Valstar, H Weinans… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Finite element modeling is an engineering tool for structural analysis that has been used for
many years to assess the relationship between load transfer and bone morphology and to …

To what extent can linear finite element models of human femora predict failure under stance and fall loading configurations?

E Schileo, L Balistreri, L Grassi, L Cristofolini… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Proximal femur strength estimates from computed tomography (CT)-based finite element
(FE) models are finding clinical application. Published models reached a high in-vitro …

Patient-specific finite element analysis of the human femur—a double-blinded biomechanical validation

N Trabelsi, Z Yosibash, C Wutte, P Augat… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Patient-specific finite element (PSFE) models based on quantitative computer tomography
(qCT) are generally used to “predict” the biomechanical response of human bones with the …

Patient-specific finite element estimated femur strength as a predictor of the risk of hip fracture: the effect of methodological determinants

M Qasim, G Farinella, J Zhang, X Li, L Yang… - Osteoporosis …, 2016 - Springer
A finite element modelling pipeline was adopted to predict femur strength in a retrospective
cohort of 100 women. The effects of the imaging protocol and the meshing technique on the …

Multiple loading conditions analysis can improve the association between finite element bone strength estimates and proximal femur fractures: a preliminary study in …

C Falcinelli, E Schileo, L Balistreri, F Baruffaldi… - Bone, 2014 - Elsevier
This is a preliminary case–control study on osteopenic/osteoporotic elderly women, testing
the association of proximal femur fracture with minimum femoral strength, as derived from …

Skeletal maturity leads to a reduction in the strain magnitudes induced within the bone: a murine tibia study

H Razi, AI Birkhold, P Zaslansky, R Weinkamer… - Acta biomaterialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Bone adapts to changes in the local mechanical environment (eg strains) through formation
and resorption processes. However, the bone adaptation response is significantly reduced …

A new approach for assigning bone material properties from CT images into finite element models

G Chen, B Schmutz, D Epari, K Rathnayaka… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Generation of subject-specific finite element (FE) models from computed tomography (CT)
datasets is of significance for application of the FE analysis to bone structures. A great …

Mechanical testing of bones: the positive synergy of finite–element models and in vitro experiments

L Cristofolini, E Schileo, M Juszczyk… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bone biomechanics have been extensively investigated in the past both with in vitro
experiments and numerical models. In most cases either approach is chosen, without …

Finite element prediction of surface strain and fracture strength at the distal radius

WB Edwards, KL Troy - Medical engineering & physics, 2012 - Elsevier
To better understand the mechanisms underlying distal radius fracture we have developed
finite element models to predict radius bone strain and fracture strength under loading …