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Analysis of Fracture Callus Mechanical Properties Using Micro-CT

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Micro-computed Tomography (micro-CT) in Medicine and Engineering

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In recent years, imaging methods have started to be used for scientific purposes as well as diagnostic purposes as technology develops. Possibilities that have revolutionary quality have been presented for scientific researches within the features that are operating principle of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), image quality, and three-dimensional reconstruction. In bone researches, samples in certain size are transferred to the computer environment without degenerating structural integrity and being exposed to chemical processing and microarchitecture which can be examined in every axis. Many bone analysis can be performed with conventional histomorphological methods by using micro-CT. Stretching tests can be applied to the samples such as analysis of advanced finite element by using micro-CT images.

Many parameters such as pathological tissues formed during healing, following either normal bone tissue or notably trabecular thickness (Tb.Th), trabecular number (Tb.N), trabecular separation (Tb.Sp), bone volume (BV), total tissue volume (TV), trabecular bone ratio (BV/TV), structural model index that shows numeric characteristics of trabecular as 3D (SMI), trabecular bone connections, number of trabecular nodes in each tissue volume (N.Nd/TV), and bone mineral density, belong to callus tissue which can be counted fast and in a secure manner.

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All figures in this chapter were scanned and reconstructed with Skyscan 1275 (Skyscan, Kontich, Belgium) in Ankara University, Faculty of Dentistry, Micro-CT Laboratory which was founded by Ankara University Research Fund (Project No:17A0234001) and belongs to the courtesy of Orhan, K., Bilecenoglu B., and Ocak. M.

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    Burak Bilecenoğlu

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    Mert Ocak

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Bilecenoğlu, B., Ocak, M. (2020). Analysis of Fracture Callus Mechanical Properties Using Micro-CT. In: Orhan, K. (eds) Micro-computed Tomography (micro-CT) in Medicine and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16641-0_6

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