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Architectural 3-D Parameters and Anisotropic Elastic Properties of Cancellous Bone

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Using 3-D reconstruction, micro-FEM and 3-D architectural analyses, we have studied the relation between various measures of architectural anisotropy, the influence of connectivity and trabecular material anisotropy on the elastic anisotropy of cancellous bone. We have reached the following conclusions: 1) the elastic anisotropy of the trabecular hone material seems only to have marginal influence on the anisotropic elastic properties of cancellous bone, 2) different architectural anisotropy measures are highly correlated, and methods studied are all highly related to the elastic anisotropy, and 3) connectivity has only marginal influence on elastic properties.

The ability to determine cancellous bone mechanical properties either indirectly from established architecture-mechanics relations or directly from architecture by the use of micro-FEM give promises for future in vivo evaluation of cancellous bone mechanical properties [20].

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  1. Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

    A. Odgaard & J. Kabel

  2. Inst. of Biomedical Engineering, ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland

    B. Van Rietbergen

  3. Biomechanics Section, Institute of Orthopaedics, University of Nijniegen, The Netherlands

    R. Huiskes

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Odgaard, A., Kabel, J., Van Rietbergen, B., Huiskes, R. (1999). Architectural 3-D Parameters and Anisotropic Elastic Properties of Cancellous Bone. In: Pedersen, P., Bendsøe, M.P. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Synthesis in Bio Solid Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46939-1_4

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