Abstract:
:The calcaneus bone is formed of extensive trabecular bone and is therefore well suited to be used as an example of loaded bone to establish the ability of combining microfinite element (microFE) technique with high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) in determining its mechanical properties. HR-pQCT is increasingly used as a tool for in vivo bone clinical research, but its use has been limited to the distal radius and tibia. The goal of this study was to determine the applicability of HR-pQCT-derived microFE models of the calcaneus trabecular bone with 82 μm voxel size with reference to higher-resolution microCT-based models taken as gold standard. By comparing the outputs of microFE models generated from both HR-pQCT and microCT images of the trabecular bone of five calcaneus cadaveric specimens, it was found that the HR-pQCT-based models predicted mechanical properties for fracture load, total reaction force and von Mises stress are considerably different from microCT-based counterparts by 33, 64 and 70%, respectively. Also, the morphological analysis showed a comprehensive geometrical difference between HR-pQCT-based microFE models and their microCT-based equivalents. The results of the HR-pQCT-based models were found to have strong dependency on the threshold value chosen to binarise the images prior to finite element modelling. In addition, it was found that the voxel size has a strong impact on accuracy of imaged-based microFE models compared to other factors such as the presence of soft tissue and image scanning integration time. Therefore, although HR-pQCT has shown to be useful to predict overall structural and biomechanical changes, it is limited in providing local accurate biomechanical properties of trabecular bone and therefore should be used with caution when assessing bone remodelling through local changes of trabecular bone apposition and resorption in disease treatment monitoring.
journal_name
Biomech Model Mechanobioljournal_title
Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiologyauthors
Alsayednoor J,Metcalf L,Rochester J,Dall'Ara E,McCloskey E,Lacroix Ddoi
10.1007/s10237-018-1051-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-12-01 00:00:00pages
1715-1730issue
6eissn
1617-7959issn
1617-7940pii
10.1007/s10237-018-1051-6journal_volume
17pub_type
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