title: Changes in the fabric and compliance tensors of cancellous bone due to trabecular surface remodeling, predicted by a digital image-based model.
abstract: Fabric and compliance tensors of a cube of cancellous bone with a complicated three-dimensional trabecular structure were obtained for trabecular surface remodeling by using a digital image-based model combined with a large-scale finite element method. Using mean intercept length and a homogenization method, the fabric and compliance tensors were determined for the trabecular structure obtained in the computer remodeling simulation. The tensorial quantities obtained indicated that anisotropic structural changes occur in cancellous bone adapting to the compressive loading condition. There were good correlations between the fabric tensor, bone volume fraction, and compliance tensor in the remodeling process. The result demonstrates that changes in the structural and mechanical properties of cancellous bone are essentially anisotropic and should be expressed by tensorial quantities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechatronics and Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University 01 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba Sendai 980-8579 Japan. tsubota@pfsl.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Ken-Ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsubota
authors.forename: Taiji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adachi
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D016880:Anisotropy; D016723:Bone Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004285:Dogs; D004548:Elasticity; D005269:Femur / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016474:Weight-Bearing / Q000502:physiology*