Conference Agenda

NUMERICAL EVALUATIONS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED POROUS INTERBODY CAGE FOR SPINAL FUSION

R. G. Talukdar, S. Dhara, S. Gupta

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF FIXATION LENGTH IN LUMBAR SPINE COMBINING RIGID AND FLEXIBLE BODY MODELING

S. Borrelli^1,2, G. Putame^1,2, A. L. Audenino^1,2, M. Terzini^1,2

¹PolitoBIOMed Lab, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; ²Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

OPTIMIZATION OF TITANIUM SPINAL CAGES TO MAXIMIZE SYNTHETIC GRAFT CONTENT IN COMPOSITE IMPLANTS

S. Ghandour¹, P. Isaksson², C. Persson¹

¹Division of Biomedical Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden; ²Division of Applied Mechanics, Uppsala University, Sweden

BIOMECHANICAL STABILITY OF LUMBAR SPINE INSTRUMENTED WITH INTERBODY FIXATION: WHICH CONSTRUCT PROVIDES BETTER STABILITY?

M. Einafshar¹, A. Kiapour², E. Massaad², J. Shin²

¹Department of Material and Production, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; ²Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

ANATOMY BASED TEST MODEL OF THE SACROILIAC JOINT FOR BIOMECHANICAL TESTING OF IMPLANTS

S. Krüger¹, T. Mendel^2,3, L. Becker⁴, S. Schedel⁵, M. Pumberger⁴, C. Schilling¹, B. W. Ullrich^2,3

¹Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany; ²Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Klinikum Bergmannstrost Halle gGmbH, Halle, Germany; ³Department of Trauma Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Jena, Germany; ⁴Centrum für Muskuloskeletale Chirurgie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ⁵Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

VERTEBRAL BODY TETHERING VS SPINAL FUSION: LOOKING BEYOND THE RADIOGRAPHICAL OUTCOME

T. Ackermans¹, S. Schelfaut², P. Severijns¹, L. Moke^1,2, P. Moens², L. Scheys^1,2

¹KU Leuven, Belgium; ²University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

FINITE ELEMENT STRAIN PREDICTION IN INTACT AND LESION-AFFECTED VERTEBRAL BODIES: A NEW VALIDATION EXPERIMENT

G. Fraterrigo^1,2, E. Schileo¹, F. Taddei¹, P. Erani¹, G. Rota¹, M. Berni¹, M. Baleani¹

¹IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy; ²Politecnico di Torino, Italy

INVESTIGATION OF THE BONE DENSITY IN AN ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOTIC VERTEBRA FOLLOWING A UNILATERAL MUSCLES PARALYSIS

M. Hosseinzadeh-Posti¹, M. Rajaeirad², A. Komeili³, Z. Kamal⁴

¹University of Guilan, Iran; ²University of Tehran, Iran; ³University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ⁴University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands, The

EFFECT OF NEGLECTING PASSIVE SPINAL STRUCTURES ON ESTIMATED JOINT LOADS: A MUSCULOSKELETAL MODELLING STUDY

L. Meszaros-Beller^1,2,3, M. Hammer^3,4, S. Schmitt^1,3,4, P. Pivonka^1,2

¹School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; ²Centre for Biomedical Technologies, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; ³Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany; ⁴Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science (SC SimTech), University of Stuttgart, Germany

DEVELOPMENT OF A FEMALE FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF THE CERVICAL SPINE

A. Silva¹, G. Carmo^1,2, R. Alves de Sousa^1,2, F. Fernandes^1,2, M. Parente³

¹TEMA - Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Campus Universitário de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; ²LASI - Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory, Portugal; ³Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4000-465 Porto, Portugal

INTRA AND INTER OPERATOR VARIABILITY IN A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF VERTEBRA FOR FAILURE LOAD PREDICTION

A. Levillain¹, V. Allard², E. Chevalier², C. Confavreux^2,3,4, J.-P. Roux², F. Bermond¹, D. Mitton¹, H. Follet²

¹Univ Lyon, Univ Gustave Eiffel, UCBL, LBMC UMR_T9406, Lyon, France; ²Univ Lyon, UCBL, INSERM, LYOS UMR 1033, Lyon, France; ³Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre hospitalier Lyon Sud, Pierre Bénite, France; ⁴CEMOS, Service de Rhumatologie, Institut de Cancérologie, Lyon, France