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Trabecular Surface Remodeling Simulation of Cancellous Bone Using Image-Based Voxel Finite Element Models

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This chapter describes a three-dimensional computer simulation of trabecular surface remodeling using voxel finite element models. The rate equation and the simulation method for the trabecular surface remodeling described in Chap. 8 are extended to the three-dimensional problems of trabecular-level and cancellous-bone-level structures under compressive loading. While Z, X, and Y shaped trabeculae are constructed as models of simplified trabecular-level structure, a cancellous-bone-level structure is modeled on the basis of digital images obtained from X-ray microcomputed tomography (μCT). Remodeling simulations predict the increasing apparent stiffness against the applied load by the trabecular reorientation to the loading direction, in both models of trabecular-level and cancellous-bone-level structures. This demonstrates functional adaptation to the applied load. Simulated structural changes in cancellous bone are anisotropic, although the loading condition is that of simple compression, and thus, changes in the structural and mechanical properties of cancellous-bone-level structures are essentially anisotropic and should be expressed by tensorial quantities. Changes in the structural indices of the trabecular architecture coincide well with reported experimental data.

This Chapter was adapted from Adachi et al. (2001) and Tsubota and Adachi (2004) with permission from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Taylor & Francis Ltd., respectively.

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Kameo, Y., Tsubota, Ki., Adachi, T. (2018). Trabecular Surface Remodeling Simulation of Cancellous Bone Using Image-Based Voxel Finite Element Models. In: Bone Adaptation. Frontiers of Biomechanics, vol 2. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56514-7_11

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