Conference Agenda

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