FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR THE DESIGN OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC WEIGHTBEARING ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS

B. Sarfati, E. Saffuri, L. Jordan, D. Solav

Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

MORPHO-MECHANICS OF THE SHEEP CALCANEAL ENTHESIS AS A RELEVANT ANIMAL MODEL FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING

A. Sensini^1,2, L. Raimondi³, A. Malerba⁴, C. Peniche Silva², A. Tits⁴, A. di Lorenzo², D. Ruffoni⁴, S. Blouin⁵, M. A. Hartmann⁵, A. Zucchelli³, M. van Griensven², L. Moroni¹

¹CTR Dept., MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Netherlands, The; ²cBITE Dept., MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Netherlands, The; ³Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy; ⁴Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Liège, Belgium; ⁵Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology, Austria

SCREW SELECTION AT THE PLATE END MAY REDUCE THE RISK OF LATER PERI-IMPLANT FRACTURE – A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

M. Meisterhans¹, S. Jakobs², E. Gautier³, C. Meier¹, P. Wahl^4,5

¹Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Switzerland; ²RMS Foundation, Switzerland; ³Orthopaedic Surgery, HFR Fribourg, Switzerland; ⁴Department Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Switzerland; ⁵Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland

STATE OF THE ART OF BONE REGENERATION IN SILICO MODELS

B. Louw¹, S. Nguyen², B. van Rietbergen¹, J. J. Arts¹, R. Doodkorte¹, J. Kok¹, L. Geris^2,3

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; ²Biomechanics Section, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium; ³Biomechanics Research Unit, GIGA In Silico Medicine, University of Liège, Belgium

ASSESSING PEDICLE SCREW PRIMARY STABILITY USING IMPACT ANALYSIS

J. Gabriel^1,2, G. Rosi², É. Wagnac¹, C.-H. Flouzat-Lachaniette³, G. Haïat², Y. Petit¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Canada; ²MSME, Univ Paris Est Créteil, Univ Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, UMR 8208, Créteil, France; ³Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Hôpital Henri Mondor AP-HP, Univ Paris Est, Créteil, France

CONCEPT FOR A SELF-LUBRICATING HIP PROSTHESIS: SIMULATION OF DYNAMIC FLUID EXCHANGE UNDER CYCLIC LOADING

M. Mosayebi, B. Helgason, S. J. Ferguson

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

CAN LOCALIZED BLADDER VOLUME MEASUREMENTS IMPROVE THE DIAGNOSIS OF OVERACTIVE BLADDER? A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY

J. Fox¹, S. Ekroll Jahren¹, D. Obrist¹, F. Burkhard², F. Clavica^1,2

¹ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Switzerland; ²Department of Urology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland

BIOMECHANICAL INVESTIGATION ON UHMWPE WEAR IN TKA: A PRELIMINARY ROLL-ON-PLANE FINITE ELEMENT MODEL

M. Sisella, B. Innocenti

BEAMS Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

TAILORING METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES IN FEMORAL IMPLANT DESIGN TO REDUCE STRESS SHIELDING

A. P. Singh^1,2, A. R. Chowdhury¹, S. Majumder¹

¹Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India; ²CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute Kolkata, India

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES FOR SPINAL FUSION CAGES: THE OPTIMAL DESIGN FOR PROMOTING EARLY BONE INGROWTH

M. Paganelli¹, J. Kok^1,2, R. J. Doodkorte¹, B. van Rietbergen^1,2, K. Ito¹, J. C. Arts^1,2

¹Eindhoven university of technology, The Netherlands; ²Maastricht university medical center+, The Netherlands

SKELETON ADAPTATIONS TO MECHANICAL FORCES IN THE LIGHT OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

S. Shimochi¹, M. Fontcuberta-Rigo¹, C. Brunet¹, K. Hrovat¹, H. Saari¹, P. Puigbò^1,2, M. Nakamura^1,3,4

¹University of Turku, Finland; ²Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; ³Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan; ⁴Tohoku University, Japan

TARGETING THE MICROMETERS SCALE ON THE RELATION OF BONE CRYSTALLINITY, ELASTIC MODULUS AND MINERAL DENSITY

G. Marchiori¹, A. Gambardella¹, M. Maglio¹, M. Bontempi¹, M. Boi², M. Montesissa², J. Bertacchini³, S. Biressi⁴, N. Baldini², G. Giavaresi¹

¹SST, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy; ²BST, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy; ³Department of Surgery, Medicine, Dentistry and Morphological Sciences with Interest in Transplant, Oncology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; ⁴Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

FRACTURE ANGLE AFFECTS OPTIMIZED TREATMENT OF COMMINUTED DISTAL FEMUR FRACTURES

X. Yu¹, C. E. H. Scott², A. H. Simpson³, P. Pankaj¹

¹Institute for Bioengineering, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; ²Edinburgh Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; ³Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

VOLUMETRIC VERSUS SURFACE-BASED TRABECULAR BONE ADAPTATION: A MICRO-FINITE ELEMENT MODEL

M. Zojaji, A. Correa Belloso, M. Van Klei, H.-L. Ploeg

Queen's University, Canada

FEMUR BIOMECHANICS WITH THE MESH-ORIENTED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD: IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS

V. V. S. V. Jakka¹, A. Moslemi¹, C. J. Runcie², A. G. Shvarts², Ł. Kaczmarczyk², C. Ruiz Wills¹, E. Alizadeh¹, L. Humbert³, J. Noailly¹

¹Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain; ²Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre (GCEC), James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK; ³3D-Shaper Medical SL, Barcelona, Spain

SYNCHROTRON X-RAY RADIATION INDUCED DAMAGE IN BONE DURING IN SITU μCT EXPERIMENTS

M. Sikorski¹, S. Levin², S. McPhee¹, L. Sinclair³, Y. Chen¹, C. Reinhard³, U. Wolfram², M. Peña Fernández¹

¹School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK; ²Institute for Materials Science and Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany; ³The University of Manchester at Harwell, UK

EX VIVO STUDIES IN TRABECULAR BONE ADAPTATION UNDER BIOPHYSICAL STIMULATION

H.-L. Ploeg, M. Zojaji, A. Correa-Belloso, M. VanKlei, B. Kunath, L. Béland, K. Ferasat, R. Rainbow

Smith Engineering at Queen's University, Canada

CT-DERIVED STRUCTURAL METRICS FOR SKULL BONE DYNAMICS IN BONE CONDUCTION HEARING

J. Niermann¹, I. Dobrev¹, L. Taenzer², B. Van Damme², C. Röösli¹, F. Pfiffner¹

¹Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland; ²EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

AN ACCESSIBLE OPEN-SOURCE APPLICATION TO SIMULATE BONE FUNCTIONAL ADAPTATION

T. van Leeuwen^1,2,3, E. Vereecke², C. Bradley³, T. Besier³

¹Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium; ²KU Leuven, Belgium; ³The University of Auckland, New Zealand

IN VIVO MECHANICAL LOADING LEADS TO TISSUE ADAPTATION IN VERTEBRAE WHICH DIMINISH IN THE LATER RESTING PERIOD

C. Erhard, T. Thiele, K. Schmidt-Bleek, M. Ö. Celik, G. Duda

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

USE OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF FRACTURE RISK IN METASTATIC VERTEBRAE

B. Gandía-Vañó¹, J. M. Navarro-Jiménez¹, E. Arana², J. J. Ródenas¹, E. Nadal¹

¹Universitat Politècnica de València. Spain; ²Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología - IVO. Valencia, Spain

CHANGES IN FLEXION AND EXTENSION MOVEMENTS FOLLOWING FUSION SURGERY: A LARGE ANIMAL STUDY

M. S. Reich, M. Bashkuev, N. Bormann, B. H. Braun, H. Schmidt, S. Reitmaier

Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

PREDICTING FUSION CAGE SUBSIDENCE: COMPARING PATIENT-SPECIFIC FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OUTPUTS WITH CLINICAL OUTCOME DATA

F. Lali¹, H. Levy², K. Raftery¹, B. Freedman², N. Newell¹

¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ²Mayo Clinic, USA

3D VERTEBRAL POSITIONING FROM BIPLANAR RADIOGRAPHS FOR SPINAL STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT IN SCOLIOSIS PATIENTS

S. Conticello^1,3, B. Jung², S. Dozio², P. Bähler^1,3, S. Schmid^3,4, P. Büchler³

¹Unibern, Switzerland; ²University Hospital Bern, Switzerland; ³Bern University of Applied Science, Switzerland; ⁴University of Basel, Switzerland

BIOMECHANICAL EVALUATION OF VERTEBRAE WITH METASTATIC LESIONS USING SUBJECT-SPECIFIC FINITE ELEMENT MODELS

R. Ghosh¹, R. Roger¹, M. Palanca², E. Dall’Ara¹, D. Lacroix¹

¹Insigneo Institute, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; ²Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION VIA IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND MODELLING

I. F. Mendes¹, N. Cristino^2,3, R. Fernandes^4,5,6, A. P. G. Castro^1,7

¹ESTSetúbal, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal; ²Neurosurgery Department, Hospital da Luz Setúbal, Portugal; ³iNOVA4Health, NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; ⁴ESS, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal; ⁵Comprehensive Health Research Center, NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; ⁶LBMF, CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; ⁷IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

EFFECT OF AGE-RELATED DEGENERATION ON INTERVERTEBRAL DISC SURFACE STRAINS

M. Pasini¹, G. Cavazzoni¹, L. Cristofolini¹, E. Dall'Ara^2,3, M. Palanca¹

¹Dept of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, IT; ²Division of Clinical Medicine, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; ³INSIGNEO Institute, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

ANALYSIS OF THE LOCAL MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF SCREW-INSTRUMENTED VERTEBRAE THROUGH MULTISCALE MODELLING

S. Borrelli, M. Terzini, C. Bignardi, A. Aldieri

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

REPLACING CT WITH CT-LIKE MRI FOR KINEMATIC MODEL CREATION IN THE HEALTHY AND DEFORMED SPINE

B. Peeters¹, S. Schelfaut², L. Moke², L. Scheys¹

¹KU Leuven, Belgium; ²UZ Leuven, Belgium

IMPACT OF ILLIOPSOAS-PRETENSION ON SPINAL AND ABDOMINAL MUSCLE ACTIVATION – AN EXPLORATIVE STUDY

D. Baumgartner, R. Appruzese, K. Stadler

Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Winterthur

AI-SUPPORTED OSTEOSYNTHESIS PLANNING: A WEB-BASED APPROACH

J. N. Zierke¹, M. Heyland¹, A. Bejaoui², T. Meyer², H. Tzschätzsch², N. Tuttle³, S. Hölzl³, H. Zhou⁴, P. Damm¹, T. A. Auer⁵, D. A. Back³, G. N. Duda¹

¹Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ²Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ³Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ⁴Technische Universität Berlin, Learning and Intelligent Systems, Berlin, Germany; ⁵Department of Radiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

MACHINE LEARNING-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL SEVERE STENOSIS BASED ON ADIPOSE TISSUE ATTENUATION

G. Nannini¹, M. Pillitteri¹, L. Mariani¹, S. Saitta², R. Maragna³, A. Baggiano³, G. Pontone³, A. Redaelli¹

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands; ³Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCSS, Milano, Italy

PREDICTION OF ENERGY EXPENDITURE FROM A SINGLE SHANK IMU FOR BOTH OVERGROUND AND TREADMILL WALKING

S. Das Gupta¹, K. Kamishita², M. Kondo², Y. Kobayashi¹

¹National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; ²Ochanomizu University, Japan

ALTERNATIVES FOR REAL-TIME GRIP POSTURE RECOGNITION WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN AFFORDABLE HAND PROSTHESES

M. C. Mora¹, J. V. García-Ortiz¹, J. Cerdá-Boluda²

¹Universitat Jaume I, Spain; ²Universitat Politècnica de València

KINEMATIC FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS USING MARKERLESS MOTION ANALYSIS

S. Galasso^1,2, R. Baptista^1,2, S. Pizzocaro^1,2,3, M. Molinara⁴, A. M. De Nunzio^1,2

¹Dep. of Research and Development, LUNEX, Luxembourg; ²Luxembourg Health & Sport Sciences Research Institute ASBL, Luxembourg; ³Dep. of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy; ⁴Dep. of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy

ENHANCING TIBIAL FRACTURE OSTEOSYNTHESIS WITH SYNTHETIC DATA: A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH

A. Bejaoui¹, J. Zierke², N. Tuttle³, H. Zhou⁴, S. Hölzl³, M. Heyland², D. A. Back³, H. Tzschätzsch¹

¹Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ²Julius Wolff Institute, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ³Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ⁴Technical University Berlin, Learning and Intelligent Systems, Germany

AI-DRIVEN CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT FOR GAIT REHABILITATION

C. Easthope Awai

Data Analytics & Rehabilitation Technology (DART), Lake Lucerne Institute, Switzerland

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN BIOMECHANICAL MODELS: COMPARING SIMULATED AND REAL-WORLD REACHING MOVEMENTS

T. Unger^1,2, M. Berclaz^1,2, C. Easthope Awai¹

¹Data Analytics & Rehabilitation Technology (DART), Lake Lucerne Institute, Switzerland; ²RELab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

LEVERAGING AI FOR REAL-WORLD BIOMECHANICAL RECONSTRUCTION FROM A SINGLE MOVING CAMERA

J. D. Peiffer^1,2, R. Patel³, B. Pennicooke³, R. J. Cotton^1,2

¹Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, United States; ²Northwestern University, United States; ³Washinghton University in St. Louis, United States

MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF SPINAL CORD TISSUE BY INDENTATION

O. F. Neumann¹, H. V. Surana¹, S. Melly², P. Steinmann², S. Budday¹

¹Institute of Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; ²Institute of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT IN THE OSTEOARTHRITIC HUMAN KNEE: COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES AND BIOMECHANICS

A. Ristaniemi^1,2, T. Paakkonen¹, M. A. J. Finnilä³, H. Kröger², R. K. Korhonen¹

¹University of Eastern Finland, Finland; ²Kuopio University Hospital, Finland; ³University of Oulu, Finland

COMPUTATIONAL MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION OF CARTILAGE BASED ON BIOT POROELASTIC THEORY

R. Cross¹, H. Fermor², M. Mengoni¹, G. de Boer¹

¹School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; ²School of Biomedical sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH IN THE MIDGUT AND MESENTERY

M. Saiki¹, H. Takeda², Y. Kawabata¹, S. Ishida¹, Y. Imai¹

¹Kobe university, Japan; ²Kyoto university, Japan

USAGE OF THE ADAPTIVE QUASI-LINEAR VISCOELASTIC MODEL TO PREDICT DIFFERENT LOAD CASES OF PORCINE LIVER IN TENSION

M. Bittner-Frank¹, O. Aryeetey¹, D. Pahr²

¹Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Department of Anatomy and Biomechanics, Division Biomechanics, Krems, Austria; ²TU Wien, Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, Vienna, Austria

IMPACT OF TISSUE PRESERVATION ON ARTERIAL WALL MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR

S. Dreesen¹, K. Holko¹, L. Anthonijsz², A. Akyildiz^1,2

¹Erasmus MC, The Netherlands; ²Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

BIAXIAL TESTING AND SENSORY TEXTURE EVALUATION OF PLANT-BASED AND ANIMAL DELI MEAT

S. R. St. Pierre, L. Sibley, S. Tran, V. Tran, E. C Darwin, K. Linka, E. Kuhl

Stanford University, United States of America

MECHANICAL DAMAGE IN FASCIA: EXPERIMENTS AND ADVANCED CONSTITUTIVE MODELING

A. Aparici-Gil¹, J. A. Peña^1,2, M. M Pérez³, E. Peña^2,4

¹Aragón Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza Spain; ²Department of Management and Manufacturing Engineering. , University of Zaragoza Spain; ³Department of Anatomy, Embryology and Genetics, Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza. Spain; ⁴CIBER-BBN, Centro de Investigación en Red en Bioingeniería, Spain

BRIDGING BIOMECHANICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE HUMAN MENISCUS USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY IMAGING

A. N. Lebedeva¹, M. Handelshauser¹, B. Hager², S. Trattnig², L. Hirtler², M. M. Schreiner², O. G. Andriotis¹, M. Marchetti-Deschmann¹, P. J. Thurner¹

¹TU Wien, Austria; ²Medical University of Vienna