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A Methodology for Trabecular Bone Microstructure Modelling Agreed with Three-Dimensional Bone Properties

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Information Technology, Systems Research, and Computational Physics (ITSRCP 2018)

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Abstract

Bone tissue is a structure with a high level of geometrical complexity as a result of mutual distribution of a large number of pores and bone scaffolds. For the study of the mechanical properties of the bone, there is a demand to generated microstructures comparable to trabecular bone with similar characteristics. Internal structure of the trabecular and compact bone has a high impact of their mechanical and biological character. The novel methodology for the definition of three-dimensional geometries with the properties similar to natural bone is presented. An algorithm uses a set of parameters to characterize ellipsoids computed based on Finite Element Method (FEM). A comparative analysis of real trabecular bone samples and the corresponding generated models is presented. Additional validation schemas are proposed. It is concluded that computer-aided modelling appears to be an important tool in the study of the mechanical behavior of bone microstructure.

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This work was partially financed by the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science AGH. Adrian Wit has been partly supported by the EU Project POWR.03.02.00-00-I004/16.

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    Jakub Kamiński, Adrian Wit, Krzysztof Janc & Jacek Tarasiuk

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  2. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  3. Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary

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Kamiński, J., Wit, A., Janc, K., Tarasiuk, J. (2020). A Methodology for Trabecular Bone Microstructure Modelling Agreed with Three-Dimensional Bone Properties. In: Kulczycki, P., Kacprzyk, J., Kóczy, L., Mesiar, R., Wisniewski, R. (eds) Information Technology, Systems Research, and Computational Physics. ITSRCP 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 945. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18058-4_17

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