Conference Agenda

CONTACT-PRESSURE BASED, MULTI-SCALE KNEE MODEL TO PREDICT CARTILAGE DEGENERATION

Y. Zhang¹, S. A. Elahi¹, I. Mohout¹, B. Killen¹, A. Esrafilian², R. Korhonen², I. Jonkers¹

¹KU Leuven, Belgium; ²University of Eastern Finland, Finland

USING AN EQUIVALENT SURFACE TO QUANTIFY CONGRUENCE AND CONTACT VARIABILITY IN JOINTS

C. B. Burson-Thomas, A. S. Dickinson, M. Browne

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF OSTEOCHONDRAL GRAFTS IN HUMAN TIBIOFEMORAL JOINTS

G. A. Day, A. C Jones, M. Mengoni, R. K Wilcox

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

KNEE CARTILAGE MECHANICS IN FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS USING INPUTS FROM DIFFERENT MUSCULOSKELETAL SOFTWARE

J. P. J. Peitola¹, A. Esrafilian¹, A. S. A. Eskelinen¹, M. S. Andersen^2,3, R. K. Korhonen¹

¹University of Eastern Finland, Finland; ²Aalborg University, Denmark; ³Center for Mathematical Modeling of Knee Osteoarthritis, Aalborg, Denmark

QUANTIFYING CELL FORCES EXERTED BY CHONDROCYTES IN THE CONTEXT OF OSTEOARTHRITIS

M. Vovchenko^1,2, N. Vaes¹, R. Castro Viñuelas^3,4, J. Barrasa-Fano¹, L. Kimps¹, A. Shapeti¹, J. de Jong¹, I. Jonkers³, H. Van Oosterwyck^1,5

¹Biomechanics Section, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven; ²Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Belgium; ³Human Movement Biomechanics Research Group, Dept. of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium; ⁴Laboratory for Tissue Homeostasis and Disease, Dept. of Development and Regeneration, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center, KU Leuven, Belgium; ⁵Prometheus Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium

POPULATION-BASED MODELING INSIGHTS IN JOINT FUNCTION AND LOADING IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS SUBJECTS

I. Jonkers, G. di Raimondo, M. Willems, B. A. Killen

ku leuven, Belgium

EFFECT OF GEOMETRY FEATURES ON KNEE JOINT MECHANICS: SUBJECT-SPECIFIC VS GENERIC MODELS BASED ON 39 PATIENTS

R. Deng¹, O. L. Bruce¹, K. D. Gibbons², C. K. Fitzpatrick², L. P. Li¹

¹University of Calgary, Canada; ²Boise State University, United States

THE EFFECT OF VARIATION IN ANATOMICAL FEATURES ON KNEE JOINT LOADING: A POPULATION-BASED MODELLING APPROACH

M. Willems¹, B. A. Killen¹, G. Di Raimondo¹, C. Van Dijck², S. Havashinezhadian³, K. Turcot³, I. Jonkers¹

¹KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Materialise NV, Belgium; ³Laval University, Canada

OPEN HANDS: AN OPEN SOURCE STATISTICAL FINGER MODEL

T. Munyebvu, C. Metcalf, M. Browne, M. O. Heller, A. Dickinson

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

AUTOMATED SHOULDER MORPHING TO ASSESS SUBJECT SPECIFIC BIOMECHANICS OF ROTATOR CUFF TEAR AND OSTEOARTHRITIS

A. Oswald¹, J. Menze¹, M. Jacxsens², T. Rojas³, M. A. Zumstein^4,5, S. J. Ferguson⁶, K. Gerber¹

¹Universität Bern, Switzerland; ²Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland; ³Clinica Santa Maria, Chile; ⁴Insel University Hospital Bern, Switzerland; ⁵Orthopaedics Sonnenhof, Switzerland; ⁶ETH Zurich, Switzerland

CHANGES IN SUBCHONDRAL BONE MICROSTRUCTURE AND SHAPE WITH AGE IN TIBIAL KNEE

L. A. Muller¹, A. Tits¹, R. Weinkamer², P. Drion¹, E. Dall'Ara³, G. H. van Lenthe⁴, D. Ruffoni¹

¹University of Liège, Belgium; ²Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany; ³University of Sheffield, UK; ⁴KU Leuven, Belgium

BIOMECHANICAL ASSESSMENT OF BONE GRAFT STABILITY USING A FEMORAL OVINE MODEL

L. S Esquivel¹, G. A Day¹, M. Mengoni¹, H. L Fermor², R. K Wilcox¹

¹Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; ²School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

HYPERELASTIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF PORCINE GROWTH PLATES VARY BY ANATOMICAL LOCATION

L. Hucke¹, G. Teixeira², J. Schwer², A. Seitz², A. Wittek¹

¹Personalized Biomedical Engineering Lab, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany; ²Institute of Orthopaedic Research and Biomechanics, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany

DETERMINING STRESS RELAXATION OF TRABECULAR BONE TO SIMULATE PRESS-FIT CONDITIONS FOR CEMENTLESS IMPLANTS

T. Gersie¹, T. Bitter¹, D. Wolfson², R. Freeman², N. Verdonschot^1,3, D. Janssen¹

¹Radboudumc, Netherlands; ²Depuy Synthes, UK; ³University of Twente, Netherlands

3D STRAIN MEASUREMENT OF THE TENDON-BONE JUNCTION USING IN-SITU XCT MECHANICS AND DIGITAL VOLUME CORRELATION

A. Moayedi¹, K. Karali¹, J. Radulovic¹, G. Blunn²

¹Department of Mechanical and Design Engineering, University of Portsmouth, UK; ²Department of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK

A COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE TENDON-TO-BONE INSERTION: THE ROLE OF TISSUE ANISOTROPY

A. Malerba¹, A. Tits¹, T. Volders¹, P. Vena², D. Ruffoni¹

¹ULiège, Belgium; ²Politecnico di Milano, Italy

IMU-BASED GROUND REACTION FORCES AND KNEE CONTACT FORCES ESTIMATION IN PATIENTS WITH KNEE OA

G. Di Raimondo, M. Willems, B. A. Killen, B. Vanwanseele, I. Jonkers

KU Leuven, Belgium

SENSITIVITY OF KNEE JOINT FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS TO UNCERTAINTIES IN MUSCULOSKELETAL MODELING INPUTS

S. Jahangir¹, W. Bosch-Vuononen¹, A. Esrafilian¹, M. Ebrahimi¹, L. Stenroth^1,2, T. Alkjær^2,3, M. Henriksen³, M. E. Mononen¹, R. K. Korhonen¹, P. Tanska¹

¹University of Eastern Finland, Finland; ²University of Copenhagen, Denmark; ³The Parker Institute, Denmark

RELIABILITY OF A NOVEL KNEE SIMULATOR AND ITS CONCURRENT VALIDITY AGAINST A VALIDATED DYNAMIC KNEE SIMULATOR

O. Taylan¹, T. Louwagie¹, D. Shah^1,2, I. Jonkers³, L. Scheys^1,4

¹Institute for Orthopaedic Research and Training (IORT), KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India; ³Human Movement Biomechanics Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium; ⁴Division of Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

EXPERIMENTAL IDENTIFICATION OF A CONTINUOUS, NON-LINEAR MAP OF THE KNEE COMPLIANCE

M. Conconi, N. Sancisi

Dept. of Industrial Engineering – DIN, University of Bologna, Italy

UNILATERAL TRANSFEMORAL AMPUTEES MIGHT BE AT RISK OF LATERAL COMPARTMENT DEGENERATION OF THE KNEE JOINT

D. Toderita, C. D. Favier, D. P. Henson, V. Vardakastani, A. M. J. Bull

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF KNEE JOINT FLEXION IN HEALTHY, CRUCIATE DEFICIENT AND CRUCIATE SUBSTITUTE CONDITIONS

E. Bori¹, S. Todros², M. Favaron¹, P. Pavan², B. Innocenti¹

¹BEAMS Department, ULB - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; ²Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

CAN OSTEOARTHRITIS AFTER ACL RECONSTRUCTION BE EXPLAINED BY (ALTERING) GRAFT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES?

J. Spierings, M. van den Hengel, B. van Rietbergen, K. Ito, J. Foolen

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The

LENGTH CHANGES OF THE MEDIAL PATELLOFEMORAL LIGAMENT DURING IN VIVO KNEE MOTION: A DYNAMIC EVALUATION.

M. R. Boot¹, S. A. W. van de Groes², H. Dunning¹, E. Tanck¹, D. Janssen¹

¹Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; ²Department of Orthopaedics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

TIBIOFEMORAL GAPS OF HUMAN CADAVERIC KNEES BEFORE AND AFTER SACRIFICING BOTH CRUCIATE LIGAMENTS

S. A. Brendle^1,2, S. Krüger¹, J. Grifka³, P. E. Müller², T. M. Grupp^1,2

¹Research and Development, Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany; ²Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Musculoskeletal University Center Munich (MUM), Campus Grosshadern, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; ³Department of Orthopaedics, Asklepios Klinikum, Bad Abbach, Germany

CONSEQUENCES OF LIMITING ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND GROUND REACTION FORCES ON MODELLED ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT FORCES

A. Nasseri¹, R. Akhundov¹, A. Bryant², D. Lloyd¹, D. J. Saxby¹

¹Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Australia; ²Centre for Health, Exercise & Sports Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia

NEWS FROM THE DEEP: MULTISCALE TISSUE MECHANICS OF COLD-WATER CORALS IN A CHANGING OCEAN

U. Wolfram

Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

PRIMARY STABILITY OF CEMENTLESS TIBIAL TRAYS DURING STAIR DESCENT AND DEEP KNEE BEND: A MICRO-CT AND DVC ANALYSIS

L. S Wearne¹, S. Rapagna¹, M. Awadalla¹, G. Keene², M. Taylor¹, E. Perilli¹

¹Medical Device Research Institute, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ²Orthopaedic Department, SportsMed, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

LONGITUDINAL SUBCHONDRAL BONE MICROSTRUCTURE AND JOINT LOADING IN RATS WITH POST-TRAUMATIC KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS

J. Piet¹, L. Juret¹, M. Van Nuffel¹, G. Vande Velde¹, R. Lories¹, E. Dall'Ara², I. Jonkers¹

¹KU Leuven, Belgium; ²University of Sheffield, UK

MICROSCALE COMPACT BONE PROPERTIES OF PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT HIP ARTHROPLASTY: INFLUENCE OF AGE AND GENDER

T. Kochetkova^1,2, M. S. Hanke³, M. Indermaur², A. Groetsch¹, S. Remund⁴, B. Neuenschwander⁴, J. Michler¹, K. A. Siebenrock³, P. Zysset², J. Schwiedrzik¹

¹Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Thun, Switzerland; ²ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Switzerland; ³Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland; ⁴ALPS Institute, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Burgdorf, Switzerland

IN VIVO MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OSTEOPOROTIC DISTRACTION CALLUS

J. J. Toscano-Angulo^1,4, J. Mora-Macías^2,4, P. Blázquez-Carmona^1,4, J. Morgaz Rodríguez³, R. Navarrete-Calvo³, J. Domínguez Abascal^1,4, E. Reina-Romo^1,4

¹Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, University of Seville, Spain; ²Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, University of Huelva, Spain; ³Hospital Clínico Veterinario, University of Córdoba, Spain; ⁴Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Spain

OPTIMALITY OF TRABECULAR BONE AT THE CONTINUUM LEVEL

P. Zysset

University of Bern, Switzerland

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUAL OSTEOPOROTIC AND CONTROL TRABECULAE IN COMPRESSION

K. Haslinger¹, M. Frank^1,2, D. H. Pahr^1,2, P. J. Thurner¹

¹Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, TU Wien, AT; ²Division Biomechanics, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, AT

MECHANICAL LOADING OF EX VIVO BOVINE TRABECULAR BONE IN 3D-PRINTED BIOREACTORS

A. V. Correa¹, M. Zojaji², A. M. Parkhill², B. A Kunath², J. F. Vivanco¹, R. Rainbow², H.-L. Ploeg²

¹Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; ²Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen's University, Canada

MICROMECHANICAL CHARACTERISATION OF OSTEOARTHRITIC SUBCHONDRAL BONE BY MICROPILLAR COMPRESSION

S. McPhee¹, L. Koria², M. Mengoni², M. Peña Fernández¹, R. Beck³, J. D Shephard³, C. Brockett⁴, U. Wolfram¹

¹Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK; ²Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds, UK; ³Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK; ⁴INSIGNEO Institute for in silico Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK

INFLUENCE OF THE TEAR PATTERN ON SHOULDER STABILITY AFTER ARTHROSCOPIC SUPERIOR CAPSULAR RECONSTRUCTION

M. Antunes¹, C. Quental¹, J. Folgado¹, C. Azevedo², A. Ângelo²

¹IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; ²Hospital CUF Tejo, Portugal

LOAD-INDUCED SCAPULA ROTATION AFTER ROTATOR CUFF TEARS DURING A 30° ARM ABDUCTION MOVEMENT

E. Croci^1,2, H. Hess³, J. Genter^1,2,4, C. Nüesch^1,2,5,6, D. Baumgartner⁴, K. Gerber³, A. M. Müller², A. Mündermann^1,2,5,6

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Switzerland; ²Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; ³School for Biomedical and Precision Engineering, University of Bern, Switzerland; ⁴IMES Institute of Mechanical Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ⁵Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Switzerland; ⁶Department of Spine Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

GLENOHUMERAL TRANSLATION AND MUSCLE FORCES IN EX VIVO SHOULDERS WITH ROTATOR CUFF INJURIES

J. Genter^1,2,3, E. Croci^2,3, B. Oberreiter³, F. Eckers³, A. M. Müller³, A. Mündermann^2,3,4, D. Baumgartner¹

¹IMES Institute for Mechanical Systems, School of Engineering ZHAW, Switzerland; ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Switzerland; ³Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; ⁴Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

REAL-TIME OPTIMIZATION OF UPPER LIMB JOINT KINEMATICS THROUGH A CONSTRAINED ISB-CONSISTENT MODEL

M. Caruso, E. Digo, L. Gastaldi, S. Pastorelli, A. Cereatti

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

THE MODULATION OF MUSCULAR SYNERGIES AS A FUNCTION OF UNEXPECTEDLY PERTURBED GRASPING TASKS

E. Jakubowitz¹, L. Schmidt¹, A. Obermeier¹, C. Hurschler¹, S. Spindeldreier²

¹Hannover Medical School, Germany; ²Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

IMPACT OF VELOCITY ON MUSCLE FORCE GENERATION DURING LONG ECCENTRIC CONTRACTIONS

T. Siebert¹, S. Weidner¹, C. Rode², A. Tomalka¹

¹University of Stuttgart, Germany; ²University of Rostock, Germany

PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF PLANTARFLEXOR MUSCLE-TENDON FORCE DURING SIMULATED HUMAN HOPPING

M. Nabipour¹, G. S. Sawicki², M. Sartori¹

¹University of Twente, Netherlands; ²Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America

A UNIFYING APPROACH FOR THE STANDARDISATION OF KINEMATIC SIGNALS

A. Ortigas Vásquez^1,2, W. R. Taylor³, B. Postolka³, P. Schütz³, A. Maas^1,2, M. Woiczinski², T. M. Grupp^1,2, A. Sauer^1,2

¹Research and Development, Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany; ²Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Musculoskeletal University Centre Munich (MUM), Campus Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany; ³Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT OPTIMISATION CRITERIA TO STANDARDISE KINEMATIC SIGNALS

A. Sauer^1,2, A. Ortigas Vásquez^1,2, B. Postolka³, P. Schütz³, A. Maas^1,2, M. Woiczinski², T. M. Grupp^1,2, W. R. Taylor³

¹Research and Development, Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany; ²Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Musculoskeletal University Centre Munich (MUM), Campus Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany; ³Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

A LSTM FRAMEWORK FOR ANKLE JOINT BIOMECHANICS PREDICTIONS FROM INERTIAL SENSORS DURING GAIT

L. Xiang^1,2, Y. Gu^1,2, V. Shim¹, A. Wang¹, J. Fernandez^1,2,3

¹Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, New Zealand; ²Faculty of Sports Science, Ningbo University, China; ³Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

MULTISCALE MODELLING OF BONE BIOMECHANICS - THE STRUCTURAL ROLES OF MINERAL AND ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS

T. Vaughan

University of Galway, Ireland

MINERAL CONTENT AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CEMENT LINES IN HUMAN OSTEONAL BONE

A. Cantamessa¹, S. Blouin², S. Amini³, M. Rummler³, A. Berzlanovich⁴, R. Weinkamer³, M. A. Hartmann², D. Ruffoni¹

¹University of Liège, Belgium; ²Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology, Austria; ³Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany; ⁴Center of Forensics Medicine, Austria

BONE COLLAGEN TENSILE PROPERTIES OF THE AGEING HUMAN PROXIMAL FEMUR

S. D. Bracher, B. Voumard, M. Simon, P. Zysset

University of Bern - ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Switzerland

MECHANICAL ENVIROMENT AROUND OSTEOCYTES DURING PHYSIOLOGICAL LOADING

A. Munoz, A. De Paolis, L. Cardoso, A. Carriero

The City College of New York, United States of America

MINERAL MOBILIZATION NEAR THE LACUNAR AND CANAL NETWORK IN LACTATION

M. Sieverts¹, C. Yee², M. Nemani², T. Alliston², C. Acevedo¹

¹University of Utah, United States of America; ²University of California San Francisco, United States of America

THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOWER-MINERALIZED TISSUE TO THE STRENGTH OF FRACTURED DISTAL RADII DURING HEALING

M. Bevers^1,2, F. Heyer¹, C. Wyers¹, P. Geusens³, H. Janzing¹, O. Lambers Heerspink¹, M. Poeze³, J. van den Bergh¹, B. van Rietbergen²

¹VieCuri Medical Center, Netherlands, The; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; ³Maastricht University Medical Center, Netherlands, The

PREDICTING FEMORAL STRENGTH FROM 2D-3D DXA FINITE ELEMENT MODELS ACROSS AGE AND ETHNICITIES

V. S. Cheong^1,2, D. Jha^1,2, A. Baker², L. Grassi³, N. Hong⁴, K. A Greene⁵, A. A Weaver⁵, S. Väänänen⁶, Y. Rhee⁴, H. Isaksson³, S. J Ferguson^1,2, B. Helgason^1,2

¹Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; ²Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden; ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea; ⁵Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA; ⁶Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

BONE MATERIAL STRENGTH INDEX TO DIFFERENTIATE EARLY BONE STRUCTURE IN PATIENTS AFFECTED BY CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS

S. Ajami^1,2, S. Schievano^1,2, M. Pinedo¹, G. James², J. Ong², D. Dunaway^1,2, N. U. O. Jeelani^1,2, A. Borghi^1,2,3

¹UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health; ²Great Ormond Street Hospital; ³Durham University, United Kingdom

STATISTICAL MODELS INFORMED BY DXA IMAGES SLIGHTLY OUTPERFORM T-SCORE IN THE PREDICTION OF HIP FRACTURE

A. Aldieri¹, M. Paggiosi², P. Bhattacharya³, R. Eastell², A. L Audenino¹, M. Terzini¹

¹PolitoBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.; ²Department of Oncology and Metabolism University of Sheffield, UK.; ³Department of Mechanical Engineering and INSIGNEO Institute for in silico Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK.

QCT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL BONE STRENGTH ASSESSMENT UPDATED WITH MRI-DERIVED ‘HIDDEN’ MICROPOROSITY

S. McPhee¹, L. Kershaw², C. Daniel³, M. Peña Fernández¹, S. E Taylor³, U. Wolfram¹

¹Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK.; ²Centre for Cardiovascular sciences and Edinburgh Imaging, University of Edinburgh, UK.; ³Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK

MINIMAL DETECTABLE FEATURES IN CT IMAGES AND DIGITAL 3D MODELS

M. Frank^1,2, A. Strassl³, E. Unger², L. Hirtler⁴, B. Eckhart¹, M. Koenigshofer², A. Stoegner¹, K. Staats¹, F. Kainberger³, R. Windhager¹, F. Moscato^2,5,6, E. Benca¹

¹Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; ²Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; ³Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; ⁴Center for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; ⁵Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Austria; ⁶Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration, Austria

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) ASSOCIATED WITH CLEARING TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THE EVOLUTION AND DEGENERATION OF SKELETAL MUSCLE OPTICAL PARAMETERS

J. F. Escobar Huertas^1,3, S. Avril², D. Garzon³, O. Trabelsi¹

¹University of Technology of Compiègne, France; ²Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, Inserm; ³Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

MODELING OF ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE MADE OF A FIBER-REINFORCED CONDUCTING POLYMER FOR BIOMECHANICAL APPLICATIONS

S. Ghosh, S. Roy

Dept. of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

IMPACT OF EXTERNAL FLEXION MOMENT ON PATELLO FEMORAL LOADING DERIVED FROM IN VIVO LOADS AND KINEMATICS

A. Trepczynski¹, P. Kneifel¹, P. Moewis¹, P. Damm¹, P. Schütz², J. Dymke¹, W. R. Taylor², G. N. Duda¹

¹Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; ²Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

ARE KINEMATICS AND MUSCULAR FUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH MOSAICISM TYPE IN MALES WITH FRAGILE X SYNDROME?

F. Spolaor¹, A. Guiotto¹, W. Piatkowska¹, E. DiGiorgio², V. Liani², R. Polli², A. Murgia², Z. Sawacha^1,3

¹Dept of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; ²Dept of Women and Child Health - University of Padova, Italy; ³Dept of Medicine - University of Padova, Italy