Biomechanical study of vertebral compression fracture using finite element analysis

• Main Authors: Hiromitsu, Takano, Ikuho, Yonezawa, Mitsugu, Todo, Mazlan, Muhammad Hazli, Tatsuya, Sato, Kazuo, Kaneko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Scientific Research Publishing 2017
• Subjects: RC Internal medicine; TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5293/1/AJ%202017%20%28749%29.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5293/; https://doi.org/10.4236/jamp.2017.54084

This research aimed to mechanically analyze vertebral stress concentration in one healthy subject and one subject with osteoporotic first lumbar (L1) vertebral compression fracture by using finite element analysis (FEA). We constructed three-dimensional image-based finite element (FE) models (Th12L2...