MULTISCALE VERTICAL MODELING OF THE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REPRODUCES IN VITRO DEGRADATION MODELS

A. Pascuet-Fontanet¹, K. Gallagher², S. E. Schneider², M. Segarra-Queralt¹, C. P. Neu², J. Noailly¹

¹BCN MedTech, Department of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; ²Soft Tissue Bioengineering Lab, University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America

A FATIGUE-BASED PERSONALIZED MODELLING APPROACH TO PREDICT CARTILAGE DEGENERATION DURING OA PROGRESSION

S. A. Elahi, Y. Zhang, B. A. Killen, I. Mohout, M. Willems, I. Jonkers

KU Leuven, Belgium

CHARACTERIZING OSTEOARTHRITIC CARTILAGE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES USING SYNCHROTRON TOMOGRAPHY AND FE MODELS

V. Jönsson¹, L. Grassi¹, A. Gustafsson¹, M. Pierantoni¹, A. Sjögren², M. Englund², H. Isaksson¹

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden; ²Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden

EXPERIMENTALLY QUANTIFYING THE INTERNAL COMPRESSION OF ARTICULAR CARTILAGE THROUGH DVC: A FEASIBILITY STUDY

L. S Wearne, H. Dejea, M. Pierantoni, H. Isaksson

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE DEFORMATION: A NOVEL COMPRESSION DEVICE FOR DYNAMIC IMAGING OF MECHANICAL LOADING

S.-M. Sombris-Picot¹, S. Le Floc’h¹, P. Cañadas¹, E. Perrier-Groult², L. Hudecek^3,4, C. Cavinato¹

¹LMGC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France; ²Institute for Regenerative Medicine & Biotherapy, Univ. Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France; ³Montpellier Ressources Imagerie, BioCampus, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France; ⁴INM, Univ. Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France