Trabecular Surface Remodeling Simulation for Cancellous Bone Using Microstructural Voxel Finite Element Models
Author:
Adachi Taiji1, Tsubota Ken-ichi1, Tomita Yoshihiro1, Hollister Scott J.2
Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501 Japan 2. Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Abstract
A computational simulation method for three-dimensional trabecular surface remodeling was proposed, using voxel finite element models of cancellous bone, and was applied to the experimental data. In the simulation, the trabecular microstructure was modeled based on digital images, and its morphological changes due to surface movement at the trabecular level were directly expressed by removing/adding the voxel elements from/to the trabecular surface. A remodeling simulation at the single trabecular level under uniaxial compressive loading demonstrated smooth morphological changes even though the trabeculae were modeled with discrete voxel elements. Moreover, the trabecular axis rotated toward the loading direction with increasing stiffness, simulating functional adaptation to the applied load. In the remodeling simulation at the trabecular structural level, a cancellous bone cube was modeled using a digital image obtained by microcomputed tomography (μCT), and was uniaxially compressed. As a result, the apparent stiffness against the applied load increased by remodeling, in which the trabeculae reoriented to the loading direction. In addition, changes in the structural indices of the trabecular architecture coincided qualitatively with previously published experimental observations. Through these studies, it was demonstrated that the newly proposed voxel simulation technique enables us to simulate the trabecular surface remodeling and to compare the results obtained using this technique with the in vivo experimental data in the investigation of the adaptive bone remodeling phenomenon.
Publisher
ASME International
Subject
Physiology (medical),Biomedical Engineering
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