DIGITAL TWINS OF CARDIOVASCULAR BIOMECHANICS: HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE THIS FOR EACH PATIENT?

A. Aggarwal

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

LEARNING DISEASE: FEASIBILITY OF MODELING OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION USING A NEURAL NETWORK FINITE ELEMENT APPROACH

S. Motiwale, M. S Sacks

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

DEEP LEARNING-DRIVEN VOLUMETRIC VASCULATURE MODELING FOR 3D GROWTH MAPPING IN LONGITUDINAL MEDICAL IMAGING

C. Yan^1,2, B. C. Ayers³, S. Haltmeier^1,2, A. Rouhollahi¹, A. S. Jassar³, F. R. Nezami¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States of America; ²Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS FOR REAL-TIME PREDICTION AND TREATMENT DECISION IN INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS

V. Lannelongue, U. Pelissier, P. Garnier, L. Philibert-Nicol, P. Jeken-Rico, P. Meliga, E. Hachem

Mines Paris PSL, France

GEOMETRIC DL-BASED PREDICTION OF AXIAL STRESSES TO ASSESS THE RISK OF ASCENDING AORTA DISSECTION

D. Astori¹, S. Di Filippo¹, S. Saitta^2,3, I. Ianniruberto¹, G. Nannini¹, D. Milesi¹, A. Redaelli¹, E. Votta¹

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands; ³University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

DEEP LEARNING GENERATION OF INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM AT CONTROLLED MORPHOLOGY FOR FLUID DYNAMICS INVESTIGATIONS

W. Ding¹, K. Ji¹, S. Castro², Y. Luo¹, C. H. Yap¹

¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ²Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

A RADIOMECHANICAL MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR HIGH-RISK CAROTID PLAQUE PREDICTION

A. Corti¹, J. de Kort^1,2, D. Bissacco², M. Domanin², S. Trimarchi², V. Corino^1,3, F. Migliavacca¹, L. Mainardi¹

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy; ³Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Italy

EMERGING METHODS TO MEASURE CARDIAC KINEMATICS WITH MRI

D. B. Ennis

Stanford University, United States of America

INVESTIGATION INTO THE HEMODYNAMIC EFFECTS OF THE LEFT ARTRIAL APPENDAGE GEOMETRY

R. Takeda¹, T. Sugiyama¹, S. Honda¹, K. Sasaki¹, H. Yokoyama², N. Oshima¹, H. Takashima³, E. Kamide³, H. Date¹

¹Hokkaido University, Japan; ²Asahikawa Medical University, Japan; ³AIS Hokkaido Inc., Japan

RESTORING SCAR TISSUE ANISOTROPY SUPPORTS FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY OF THE INFARCTED HEART

L. H. F. Souren^1,2, K. L. P. M. Janssens¹, P. H. M. Bovendeerd¹, C. V. C. Bouten^1,2, S. Loerakker^1,2

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands.; ²Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands

INSIGHTS INTO THE IMPACT OF AORTIC ARCH MORPHOLOGY ON BULK FLOW HEMODYNAMICS: A 4D FLOW MRI ANALYSIS

F. Morelli¹, D. Russo¹, A. Riva^2,1, G. Nano^2,3, D. Mazzaccaro^2,3, E. Votta¹, F. Sturla^2,1

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy; ³Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

MECHANICAL STRESS ANALYSIS IN CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES: 2D VS. 3D COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES

S. Zambon¹, A. Tziotziou², E. M. Hartman², C. Chiastra¹, J. Daemen², U. Morbiducci¹, J. J. Wentzel², D. Gallo¹

¹Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ²Erasmus MC, the Netherlands

BIOMECHANICAL MODELING OF THE ANOMALOUS CORONARY ARTERY TOWARDS PERSONALIZED ISCHEMIC RISK STRATIFICATION

M. Lo Rito¹, A. Rosato², S. Anglese², C. Corrado¹, M. L. Agnifili³, F. Bedogni³, A. Giamberti^1,4, M. Conti^2,5

¹Congenital Cardiac Surgery Department, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy; ²3D and Computer Simulation Laboratory (C3Dlab), IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy; ³Department of Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy; ⁴Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy; ⁵DICAr, Compmech, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION MODELS SIMULATING AORTIC STENOSIS

S. C. F. P. M. Verstraeten¹, R. Meiburg¹, K. L. P. M. Janssens¹, M. J. M. M. Hoeijmakers², M. C. M. Rutten¹, M. van 't Veer³, W. A. L. Tonino³, F. N. van de Vosse¹, W. Huberts^1,4

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; ²ANSYS, The Netherlands; ³Catharina Hospital, The Netherlands; ⁴University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

DESIGNING SELF-EXPANDABLE CARDIOVASCULAR DEVICES THROUGH GEOMETRY, MATERIAL, AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION

C. Chiastra

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

GENERATION OF INNOVATIVE VASCULAR STENT DESIGNS WITH PRESCRIBED MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS

D. Carbonaro¹, N. Ferro², F. Mezzadri³, E. Torta¹, E. Temellini², S. Zambon¹, A. L. Audenino¹, D. Gallo¹, E. Galligani³, S. Perotto², U. Morbiducci¹, C. Chiastra¹

¹Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ²Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ³Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM TREATMENT WITH INTRASACCULAR FLOW DISRUPTOR MODELING

C. Faitini, P. Jeken-Rico, P. Meliga, E. Hachem

CEMEF CNRS, MINES Paris PSL Research University, Sophia-Antipolis, France

FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF STENT DEPLOYMENT IN THE SUPERIOR VENA CAVA

I. Khaydukova¹, G. Kenny², V. Hulk², E. D. O’Cearbhaill¹

¹UCD Centre for Biomedical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland; ²Croívalve, Dublin, Ireland

CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF POLYMERIC SCAFFOLD MATERIAL MODELING FOR IN SITU TISSUE-ENGINEERED VASCULAR IMPLANTS

M. Rolf-Pissarczyk¹, M. Terzano¹, M. P. Wollner¹, N. Götzen², G. A. Holzapfel^1,3

¹Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria; ²4RealSim Services BV, IJsselstein, The Netherlands; ³Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTIMIZED THROMBECTOMY STENT RETRIEVER: FROM MODELING TO VALIDATION

S. WU¹, X. Wang¹, B. Wang¹, F. Berti², V. Fregona², V. Quartieri², T. Zhang¹, S. Lyu¹, F. Migliavacca², G. Luraghi²

¹Robotics Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, China; ²LaBS, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR CRIMPING AND FREE DEPLOYMENT IN THE DESIGN OF BIOABSORBABLE METALLIC CORONARY STENTS

D. Blunda, T. Vaughan

University of Galway, Ireland

BONE MECHANO-ADAPTATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON BONE GEOMETRY, MICROARCHITECTURE, AND QUALITY

E. A. Zimmermann

MCGILL UNIVERSITY, Canada

MECHANICAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR IN SILICO MODELLING OF LATE-STAGE BONE HEALING IN PREMATURELY AGEING MICE

J. J. Kendall, C. Ledoux, F. A. Schulte, R. Müller

Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

MODELING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN SHAPE ADAPTATIONS AND FORCE CHANGES IN JOINT FORMATION

R. Suzuki, S. Konishi, T. Adachi

Kyoto University, Japan

A HOMOGENEITY SCORE ENABLES REFINED LOAD DIRECTION PREDICTION COMPARED TO INVERSE BONE REMODELING

S. Bachmann, D. H. Pahr, A. Synek

TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

QUANTITATIVE IMPACT OF MODELLING STRAIN RATE DEPENDENCY IN LOW-IMPACT FALL SIMULATIONS OF THE HUMAN HIP

G. Gerber¹, P. Varga², J. Schwiedrzik³, P. Zysset¹

¹ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Switzerland; ²AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland; ³Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

MULTISCALE INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT MITIGATION STRATEGIES: BIOMIMICKING THE MUSK OX HEAD

C. Foucher, J. Michler, J. Schwiedrzik

EMPA, Switzerland

RECENT INNOVATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS TO IMPROVE DIVERSITY IN SHOULDER COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

J. W. Giles^1,2,3

¹University of Victoria, Canada; ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ³Michael Smith Health Research British Columbia

UNCERTAIN MUSCLE PARAMETERS AFFECT OUTCOMES OF GENERIC SHOULDER MUSCULOSKELETAL MODELS

N. Belotti, H. Hosseini, W. R. Taylor, F. Bossuyt

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

DIFFERENCES IN ROTATOR CUFF MORPHOLOGY BETWEEN SHOULDERS WITH AND WITHOUT ROTATOR CUFF TEARS

E. Croci^1,2, H. Hess³, C. Nüesch^1,2,4,5, D. Baumgartner⁶, K. Gerber³, A. M. Müller^1,2, A. Mündermann^1,2,4,7

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; ⁴Department of Spine Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; ⁵Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Switzerland; ⁶Institute of Mechanical Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ⁷Schulthess Clinic Zurich, Switzerland

UPPER EXTREMITY BIOMECHANICS OF WHEELCHAIR ACTIVITIES FROM REAL-LIFE WEARABLES USING MACHINE LEARNING

W. de Vries¹, I. Salzmann^1,2, S. Amrein^1,3, U. Arnet¹

¹Swiss Paraplegic Research, Switzerland; ²UMCG Groningen, Netherlands; ³Health Science & Technology, ETH, Switzerland

BONY PARAMETERS AND POSTURE SHOW NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS ON GLENOHUMERAL TRANSLATIONS IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS

E. C. Herbst^1,2, F. Stettler¹, H. Henninger³, M. Modelhart^2,4, M. Tanadini⁵, S. J. Ferguson¹, P. Moroder²

¹ETH Zürich, Switzerland; ²Schulthess Klinik, Switzerland; ³University of Utah, U.S.A; ⁴Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), Austria; ⁵Zurich Data Scientists GmbH, Switzerland

SKIN-MARKER-BASED SCAPULA TRACKING ENHANCED BY BI-FLUOROSCOPY-INFORMED MACHINE LEARNING

M. Lavaill¹, P. Pivonka¹, E. Sarshari²

¹Queensland University of Technology, Australia; ²Stryker GmbH, Selzach, Switzerland

COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF LOCAL STRAIN IN MELT- ELECTROWRITTEN SCAFFOLDS FOR GUIDING CELL ORIENTATION

J. Iamsamang¹, T. van Westen¹, M. Castilho^1,2

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; ²Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

3D-PRINTED DUAL-FACED FABRIC WITH TUNABLE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

J. Xu¹, X. Hua²

¹university of exeter, United Kingdom; ²university of exeter, United Kingdom

PREDICTING THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF BUCKYBALL MICROSCAFFOLDS THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

A. Kumar¹, V. Kumbolder¹, R. V. Balasubramanian², J. Fernandez², A. Ovsianikov², C. Hellmich¹, S. Scheiner¹

¹Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, TU Wien, Austria; ²3D Printing and Biofabrication Group, Institute of Materials Science and Technology, TU Wien, Austria

REPRODUCING SOFT TISSUE VISCOELASTICITY IN ANATOMICAL MODELS BY SILICONE 3D PRINTING

S. Dehen^1,2, F. Groß^1,2, A. Lorenz³, D. H. Pahr^1,2, A. Reisinger^1,2

¹Division Biomechanics, Karl Landsteiner Private University of Health Sciences, Austria; ²Institute for Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, TU Vienna, Austria; ³Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology, Austria

DESIGN AND 3D PRINTING OF BONE-INSPIRED LATTICE STRUCTURES: PORE SIZE AND STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE

M. Tauheed¹, A. Alsheghri^1,2, A. S Dalaq^1,3, R. K A. Al-Rub⁴

¹Interdisciplinary Research Center for Biosystems and Machines, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia; ²Mechanical Engineering Department, KFUPM, SA; ³Bioengineering Department, KFUPM, SA; ⁴Advanced Digital & Additive Manufacturing Group, Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Department, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES FOR BIOPRINTING METHODS

A. De Giorgi^1,2, Z. Wang², Q. Li³, A. Polini¹, F. Gervaso¹, Y. S. Zhang²

¹CNR Nanotec, Insitute of nanotechnology, Lecce, Italy; ²Division of eingineering in medicine, Harvard Medical School, BWH, Cambridge, MA, USA; ³Mechanical and mechatronic engineering, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO EVALUATE BSAMA, HAMA, AND PLMA SCAFFOLD HYDROGELS

D. Fidalgo¹, P. Rebolo¹, N. Ramião¹, A. Guerrra¹, J. Correia¹, R. Almeida², J. Maia², M. Costa², J. Maia², M. Parente^1,3

¹Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), Portugal; ²University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal; ³Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), Poirtugal

VALIDATION STUDY OF A DYNAMIC BIPLANE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING LAB FOR CONTINUOUS IN VIVO MOTION

A. Ayechu Abendaño¹, M. Blättler¹, K. Daneshvar², A. Aiyangar^1,2

¹Empa, Switzerland; ²Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiography, Inselspital, University Hospital, Bern

IMPACT OF PERSONALIZED KNEE ANATOMY ON MUSCULOSKELETAL KINEMATIC MODELS

M. Conconi¹, F. Magnani¹, N. Sancisi¹, S. Martelli²

¹University of Bologna, Italy; ²Queensland University of Technology, Australia

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF BODY MASS INDEX ON SOFT-TISSUE-INDUCED MOTION ARTEFACTS IN GAIT ANALYSIS WITH MIKNEESOTA

A. Sauer¹, A.-K. Einfeldt³, M. Utz¹, E. Jakubowitz³, A. Ortigas-Vásquez^1,2

¹Research & Development, Aesculap AG, Germany; ²Musculoskeletal University Centre Munich, LMU Munich, Germany; ³Hannover Medical School, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Laboratory for Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Hannover, Germany

SIX DOF KNEE GAIT KINEMATICS OF MECHANIC AND KINEMATIC ALIGNED TKA

A.-K. Einfeldt¹, L. Tücking², P. Savov², M. Ettinger², H. Windhagen², E. Jakubowitz¹

¹Hannover Medical School, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Laboratory for Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Hannover, Germany; ²Hannover Medical School, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, DIAKOVERE Annastift, Hannover, Germany

IMPLEMENTING REFRAME TO COMPARE KINEMATIC SIGNALS OF THE KNEE FROM FIVE DIFFERENT MARKER MODELS

A. Ortigas-Vásquez^1,2, A.-K. Einfeldt³, Y. Haufe³, M. Utz¹, E. Jakubowitz³, A. Sauer¹

¹Research & Development, Aesculap AG, Germany; ²Musculoskeletal University Centre Munich, LMU Munich, Germany; ³Laboratory for Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Hannover Medical School, Germany

LATERAL PIVOTING OBSERVED IN VALGUS-ALIGNED KNEES DURING SQUATTING ACTIVITY

O. Taylan¹, G. Peersman¹, J. Itou^1,2, G. Peersman^1,3, J. Bellemans⁴, L. Scheys¹

¹IORT, KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan; ³ZAS, Belgium; ⁴AZ Vezalius, Belgium

A CUSTOM FORCE PLATE FOR QUANTIFYING FINGER LOADING DURING SMARTPHONE ACTIVITIES

Y. Han, F. M. Vallerini, F. Holdsworth, K. Wanglertpanich, A. E. Kedgley, S. D. Masouros

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

FROM MAGNETIC BIOPRINTING TO THE ENGINEERING OF STRETCHABLE, FUNCTIONAL MUSCLE TISSUE

N. S. Demri¹, L. Morizur², S. Dumas¹, P. Petrova Tsvetkova¹, G. Gropplero¹, C. Martinat², S. Descroix¹, C. Wilhelm¹

¹Institut Curie, France; ²I-Stem, France

INHOMOGENEOUS STRAIN FIELD IN HYDROGEL FOLLOWING REINFORCEMENT BY MELT-ELECTROWRITTEN SCAFFOLD

E. M. Shapiro¹, A. Hrynevich², M. Castilho^2,4, J. Malda², R. K Korhonen³, E. K. Moo^1,3

¹Carleton University, Canada; ²Regenerative Medicine Center, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; ³University of Eastern Finland, Finland; ⁴Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO MODEL HYDROGEL MECHANICS

D. E. García García¹, H. Amaveda², M. Mora², M. Á. Pérez¹, J. M. García Aznar¹

¹Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A)-University of Zaragoza (Spain); ²Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), CSIC and University of Zaragoza

FIBROBLAST-ECM INTERACTIONS AND REMODELLING UNDER MAGNETO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION

J. Gonzalez-Rico¹, M. L. Lopez-Donaire¹, D. Velasco², D. Garcia-Gonzalez¹

¹Continuum mechanics and structure analysis department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; ²Bioengineering department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF 3D MICROSTRUCTURED SCAFFOLDS FOR IN VITRO MODULATION OF MACROPHAGE PHENOTYPE

C. Martinelli¹, M. Vicini¹, F. Bonetto¹, C. Conci¹, G. Chirico², G. Cerullo³, R. Osellame³, E. Jacchetti¹, M. T. Raimondi¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; ²Department of Physics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy; ³Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnology (IFN)-CNR and Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

MESOSCALE PATTERNED SUBSTRATES FOR ENDOTHELIALIZATION THROUGH HYBRID LITHOGRAPHY ELECTRODEPOSITION APPROACH

M. Baccarella^1,2, F. Cosentino¹, P. Terranova¹, E. Romano^1,2, V. La Carrubba², F. Lopresti², C. Arnone³, W. R. Wagner⁴, A. I. Barakat⁵, A. D'Amore^1,4,6

¹Ri.MED Foundation, Palermo, Italy; ²University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; ³MICROTECH srl, Palermo, Italy; ⁴Departments of Surgery, Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA; ⁵LadHyX, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institute Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France; ⁶McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

MULTISCALE BIO-MECHANICAL STUDY OF GELMA HYDROGELS: INSIGHTS INTO STRUCTURE-BIOCOMPATIBILITY RELATIONSHIP

G. Serino¹, M. Tosini¹, P. M. Gaudiosi², S. Villata², D. Baruffaldi², F. Frascella², A. L. Audenino¹, D. Massai¹

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

THE EFFECT OF GLYCERINATED STORAGE SOLUTION ON FIBER, FIBER BUNDLE, AND WHOLE MUSCLE ELASTIC MODULUS

I. Dehghan Hamani¹, S. H M Brown², T. R Oxland¹

¹University of British Columbia, Canada; ²University of Guelph, Canada

MULTIMODAL MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SPINAL CORD TISSUE

R. Gopalan Ramachandran

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany

AORTIC THROMBI MICROSTRUCTURE THROUGH CONTRAST- ENHANCED X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY

J. Léonet¹, J. Vicente², M. De Masi^1,3, V. Deplano¹

¹Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Méditerranée, IRPHE UMR7342, Marseille, France; ²Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS IUSTI UMR7343, Marseille, France; ³Department of Vascular Surgery, AP-HM, Timone Hospital, Timone Aortic Center, Marseille, France

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICONE VOCAL FOLD MODELS USING COMBINED OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AND PIPETTE ASPIRATION

R. Lamprecht, F. Scheible, A. Sutor

UMIT TIROL - Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology, Austria

ANISOTROPIC AND VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF THE HUMAN LARGE BOWEL

c. g. fontanella, I. Toniolo, M. V. Mascolini, E. Stocco, V. Macchi, F. Vittadello, G. Sarzo, e. l. carniel

university of padova, Italy

BIAXIAL TESTING WITH RAKES VS CLAMPS

L. S. Sibley, S. R. St. Pierre, S. Tran, V. Tran, E. C. Darwin, M. Levenston, E. Kuhl

Stanford University, United States of America

TEXTURE PROFILE ANALYSIS AND RHEOLOGY OF PLANT-BASED AND ANIMAL MEAT

R. A. Dunne, E. C. Darwin, V. A. Perez Medina, M. E. Levenston, S. R. St. Pierre, E. Kuhl

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

A PATHWAY TO IMPROVING REHABILITATION OUTCOMES THROUGH AI-POWERED, CLINICALLY ACCESSIBLE BIOMECHANICS

R. J. Cotton^1,2

¹Shirley Ryan AbilityLab; ²Northwestern University, United States of America

SYNTHETIC GAIT GENERATOR: A DATA-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR CREATING COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN MOVEMENT DATASETS

A. Berger¹, G. Serrancolí²

¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ²Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

ENHANCING ROBUSTNESS USING TRANSFER LEARNING: DEEP LEARNING BASED GAIT EVENT DETECTION FOR OLDER ADULTS

K. Z. Tan^1,2, Z. Y. Yong¹, Y. K. Kim^1,2, M. Gwerder², A. Frautschi², E. Lamoureux^3,4, P. Gupta^3,4, N. B. Singh^1,2

¹Future Health Technologies Programme, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; ²Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ³Singapore Eye Research Institute and Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore; ⁴Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

MACHINE LEARNING-BASED RANKING OF FALL RISK FACTORS

M. T. Adil, P. Mandal

The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

MUSCLE FATIGUE CLASSIFICATION DURING FES: A STUDY ON ISOMETRIC, ISOTONIC, AND HYBRID CONTRACTION DATASETS

S. Selkmann¹, A. Lipphaus², M. Neumann¹, B. Bender¹

¹Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Chair for Product Development; ²Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany - Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Biomechanics Research Group

TFNET A TEMPORAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN MODEL FOR GAIT BIOMECHANICAL SIGNAL PREDICTION

Q. Bian¹, J. Duan², Z. Ding¹

¹University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²University of Manchester, United Kingdom

A FEDERATED LEARNING MODEL FOR MONITORING DYNAMIC GAIT BALANCE USING A SINGLE IMU

C.-H. Yu¹, Y.-Y. Cheng¹, H.-Y. Tsai¹, S.-H. Lu², Y.-F. Lu¹, T.-M. Wang³, T.-W. Lu¹

¹National Taiwan University, Taiwan; ²Taipei Medical University, Taiwan; ³National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan

THE PATH TO TISSUE FAILURE IN AORTIC DISEASE: CALL FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT

S. Pirola¹, K. Reesink²

¹Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands; ²Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

HEMODYNAMICS IN ACUTE TYPE-B AORTIC DISSECTION: FSI STUDY IN AN IDEALIZED DISSECTION WITH A FALSE LUMEN SIDE BRANCH

A. Balasubramanya¹, L. Gheysen¹, M. Wagenhäuser², N. Famaey³, J. Degroote⁴, P. Segers¹

¹IBiTech-BioMMeda, UGent, Belgium; ²Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Dusseldorf, Germany; ³Biomechanics section, KU Leuven, Belgium; ⁴Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, UGent, Belgium

CO-EVOLUTION OF STRAIN, CURVATURE, AND THROMBUS IN AAA: A LONGITUDINAL ULTRASOUND INVESTIGATION

M. Thirugnanasambandam, J. Fonken, A. Nievergeld, T. Timmer, E. Maas, M. van Sambeek, R. Lopata

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The

EX-VIVO ASCENDING AORTA MODEL

A. F. Pascaner¹, M. Schembri², M. Conti^2,3, J. De Kort^1,4, J. Bassi⁵, M. Di Giancamillo⁵, S. Trimarchi^1,6, F. Auricchio², A. Caimi²

¹Section of Vascular Surgery, Cardio Thoracic Vascular Department, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy; ²Civil Engineering and Architecture Department, Pavia University, Pavia, Italy; ³3D and Computer Simulation Laboratory, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy; ⁴Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; ⁵Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; ⁶Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION ANALYSIS OF TEVAR WITH DOUBLE-BRANCHED ENDOGRAFT IN TYPE-A AORTIC DISSECTION

B. Li¹, Y. Zhu^1,2, M. D'Oria³, X. Y. Xu¹

¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial Colleghe London, United Kingdom; ²National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ³Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND QUANTIFICATION OF ASCENDING THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSMS DYNAMICS

R. Valente¹, A. Mourato^1,2, M. Brito^1,2, J. Xavier^1,2, A. Carvalho³, S. Avril⁴, A. Tomás⁵, J. Fragata^5,6

¹UNIDEMI, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal; ²Laboratório Associado de Sistemas Inteligentes, LASI, Portugal; ³Lisbon School of Engineering (ISEL/IPL), Lisboa, Portugal; ⁴École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, University of Lyon, Inserm, Sainbiose U1059, France; ⁵Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Santa Marta Hospital, Portugal; ⁶Department of Surgery and Human Morphology, NOVA Medical School, Portugal

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODEL OF THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR (TEVAR)

A. Hauguel^1,2, G. Cardillo¹, A. Azarine², K. Kasani², S. Haulon², A. Barakat¹

¹LadHyx, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau France; ²Hopital Marie Lannelongue, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, Le Plessis Robinson, France

STENT-GRAFT LENGTH AND COMPLIANCE DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECT HEMODYNAMICS IN A BENCH-TOP PHYSIOLOGICAL FLOW CIRCUIT

A. Desyatova, R. Shahbad, E. Zermeno, K. Maleckis

University of Nebraska Omaha, United States of America

TAILORING TURBULENCE FOR MECHANICAL HEART VALVES

T. B. Zeugin¹, A. Mokhtari¹, D. Obrist¹, S. Zheng^1,2

¹ARTORG Center, University of Bern, Switzerland; ²Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF 3D-PRINTED STENT-GRAFTS: IMPACT OF DESIGN AND PRINTING PARAMETERS

L. Battaglia¹, G. Spinella², F. Scocozza³, M. Conti³

¹Università di Genova, Genova, Italia; ²Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova; ³Università di Pavia, Pavia

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE MITRAL VALVE REPAIR: A CUSTOMIZABLE MODEL

T. J. PIGEON¹, P. KULISA², B. BOU-SAÏD¹

¹INSA Lyon, CNRS, LaMCoS, UMR5259, 69100 Villeurbanne, France; ²Ecole Centrale de Lyon, CNRS, LMFA, UMR5509, 69621, Villeurbanne, France

IN SILICO ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF AORTIC DISSECTIOIN MEMBRANE THICKNESS ON STENT-GRAFT EXPANSION IN CHRONIC TYPE B DISSECTION

G. Fernandez^1,3, M. Wagenhäuser², N. Famaey¹, P. Segers³

¹KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Heinrich-Heine University, Germany; ³Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

EVOLUTION OF EDGE-TO-EDGE MITRAL VALVE REPAIR: ALFIERI STITCH AND TRANSCATHETER DEVICES HEAD-TO-HEAD COMPARISON

K. Delanoë¹, E. Salaun¹, R. Rieu², P. Pibarot¹, V. Stanová¹

¹Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie - ULaval, Canada; ²Aix-Marseille Université/ Université Gustave Eiffel, LBA-UMRT24, France

A NOVEL APPROACH TO ASSESS FENESTRATED STENT-GRAFTS

F. Migliavacca¹, G. De Campo¹, S. Barati¹, L. Canaud², S. Trimarchi³, G. Luraghi¹, A. Ramella¹

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, France; ³IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico di Milano and Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

WAVE PROPAGATION TRACKING AND MODEL VALIDATION IN 3D-PRINTED HUMAN SKULLS

L. Taenzer^1,2, S. Metting van Rijn¹, S. Loggia¹, I. Dobrev³, J. Niermann³, P. Tiso², B. Van Damme¹

¹Empa, Switzerland; ²ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ³University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

THERMOMECHANICAL INVESTIGATION OF CORTICAL BONE UNDER FLEXURAL LOADING

M. Spataro¹, D. D'Andrea¹, P. Uniyal², G. van Lenthe², D. Milone¹

¹Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Italy; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium

REAL-TIME IN-VITRO MEASUREMENTS OF FEMORAL STRAIN DURING HABITUAL DAILY ACTIVITY

D. O'Rourke, S. Martelli

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

INVESTIGATION ON PRECISION OF DIGITAL VOLUME CORRELATION FOR SUBCHONDRAL BONE MECHANICS

P. Uniyal¹, V. Anbalagan¹, A. Banerjee¹, E. Dall’Ara², G. H. van Lenthe¹

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

A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS THE ACCURACY OF DIGITAL VOLUME CORRELATION FOR STRAIN MEASUREMENT

M. Berni¹, E. Dall'Ara², P. Erani¹, N. F. Lopomo³, M. Baleani¹

¹IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy; ²University of Sheffield, UK; ³Politecnico di Milano, Italy

BIOMECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF TIBIA PLATEAU FRACTURE MANAGEMENT: CONVENTIONAL VS. PREOPERATIVE PLANNING

S. Sandriesser^1,2, R. Pätzold^1,3, S. Comtesse^4,5, L. Sommerhalder^4,5, T. Zumbrunn^4,5, A. von Keudell^5,6,7, B. Stäudle⁸, P. Augat^1,2

¹Institute for Biomechanics, BG Unfallklinik Murnau, Germany; ²Institute for Biomechanics, Paracelsus Medical University, Austria; ³Department of Trauma Surgery, BG Unfallklinik Murnau, Germany; ⁴Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ⁵CustomSurg AG, Switzerland; ⁶Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; ⁷Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁸Rimasys GmbH, Cologne, Germany

FRACTURE GEOMETRY IMPACTS STABILITY OF OSTEOSYNTHESES

M. Hollensteiner¹, M. Mühling¹, P. Blum^1,2, S. Sandriesser¹, D. Baumeister¹, M. Greinwald¹, J. Fürmetz^2,3, P. Augat¹

¹Institute for Biomechanics, BGU Unfallklinik Murnau gGmbH, Murnau, Germany; ²Department of Trauma Surgery, BGU Unfallklinik Murnau gGmbH, Murnau, Germany; ³Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital (LMU), Munich, Germany

MATERIAL PROPERTY OPTIMIZATION FOR VIRTUAL TORSION TESTING OF LARGE-DEFECT BONE RECONSTRUCTION

K. S. Frew¹, M. Boyes², T. P. Schaer², H. L. Dailey¹

¹Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Department of Clinical Studies New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennet Square, PA, USA

QUANTIFYING KINEMATICS AND KINETICS OF VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPE INTUBATION VIA MOTION CAPTURE AND ROBOTICS

M. Daghero, S. Borrelli, G. Putame, T. M. Vieira, M. Terzini

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

QUANTITATIVE STIFFNESS ANALYSIS AFTER PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT REPLACEMENT

G. Fischer¹, R. L. Surbeck², E. Rothenfluh¹, W. R. Taylor², L. Reissner³, M. Calcagni^1,4

¹University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland; ²ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ³Balgrist University Hospital, Switzerland; ⁴Hand Institut Zürich, Switzerland

SIMULATING SURFACE ROUGHENING OF CEMENTED FEMORAL KNEE IMPLANTS

J. Schwiesau^1,2, A. L. Puente Reyna¹, J. Steffens³, T. M. Grupp^1,2

¹BBraun Aesculap AG, Germany; ²Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Musculoskeletal University Centre Munich (MUM), Campus Grosshadern, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; ³Endolab GmbH, Germany

INFLUENCE OF SEGMENTATION AND DENSITY-STIFFNESS RELATION ON PREDICTED BONE DISPLACEMENT AND IMPLANT MICROMOTION

O. Morales¹, I. Fleps², A. Miranda², P. Favre³, C. Mueri³

¹Zimmer Biomet, Colombia; ²Zimmer Biomet, USA; ³Zimmer Biomet, Switzerland

PREDICTING IN VIVO PLATE FAILURE BY COMBINING IMPLANTABLE SENSOR DATA AND PATIENT-SPECIFIC SIMULATIONS

D. Mischler^1,2, A. Valenti¹, M. Ernst¹, P. Varga¹

¹AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland; ²Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland

VALIDATION OF A MICRO-FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR PRIMARY STABILITY OF PEDICLE SCREWS

M. Frigelli¹, M. Indermaur¹, D. Mischler², P. Wili¹, F. Kessler¹, P. Varga², P. Zysset¹

¹ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Switzerland; ²AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland

PILOT STUDY ON DYNAMICALLY MODIFIABLE EXTRACORPOREAL TRANSDERMAL FIXATION USING LOCKING PLATES

M. Heyland¹, M. Xueyan¹, J. Zhang¹, D. Wulsten¹, D. Blažević²

¹Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ²Department of Traumatology, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia

EFFECT OF BONE DENSITY AND RESECTION ACCURACY ON MICROMOTIONS OF STEMLESS SHOULDER IMPLANTS

I. Fleps¹, K. Snethen¹, C. Parduhn¹, A. Miranda¹, C. Mueri², G. Maquer², C. Landry³, T. Duquin⁴, J. Sperling⁵, T. Hatta⁶, J. Bischoff¹, P. Favre²

¹Zimmer Biomet, Warsaw, United States; ²Zimmer Biomet, Winterthur, Switzerland; ³Zimmer Biomet, Montreal, Canada; ⁴UBMD Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Buffalo, United States; ⁵Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, MN, United States; ⁶Joint Surgery, Sports Clinic Ishinomaki, Ishinomaki, Japan

MELT-ELECTROWRITTEN PCL MICROFIBRE REINFORCED HYDROGEL SCAFFOLDS FOR CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING

P. Varatharajan¹, D. Kelly¹, K. Manda²

¹Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; ²Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland

INTEGRATING 3D MICROSCAFFOLDS ON POROUS MEMBRANES FOR CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY IN CAM ASSAYS

L. Cherubin¹, E. Mauri¹, A. Nardini¹, M. Laganà², R. Martinez Vazquez³, G. Cerullo⁴, R. Osellame³, E. Jacchetti¹, C. Conci¹, M. T. Raimondi¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, P.zza L. da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan, Italy; ²Gemma Prototipi, Italy; ³Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN)- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Milano, Italy; ⁴Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, P.zza L. da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milan, Italy.

3D VASCULAR MODEL: OPTIMIZATION OF BIOFABRICATION PROCESS AND BIOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION

F. Scocozza¹, D. G. Elena², M. Conti^1,2

¹Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; ²IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Computer Simulation Laboratory, San Donato Milanese, Italy

FILAMENTED LIGHT PRINTING OF STRONG CONSTRUCTS USING POLY(Ε-CAPROLACTONE)-PHOTOCROSSLINKABLE RESINS

A. Mignon^1,2, M. Krell², J. Janiak², A. Puiggali-Jou², M. Zenobi-Wong²

¹KU Leuven University, Belgium; ²ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

FIBOROUS TUBULAR MELT ELECTROWRITTEN TPU SCAFFOLDS: FABRICATION AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION

J. Pižorn¹, E. Bruatto¹, N. Cesarovic², V. Falk², S. J. Ferguson¹

¹Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ²Translational Cardiovascular Technologies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

CONFINED COMPRESSION ASSESSMENT OF MELT ELECTROWRITTEN TRI-LAYERED SCAFFOLDS FOR ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REPAIR

A. Amicone¹, P. Akhlaghi², R. J. P. Doodkorte², K. Ito², S. J. Ferguson¹

¹ETH Zurich, Institute for Biomechanics, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Eindhoven, Netherlands

SPIDER SILK (SVX)-ENRICHED ALGINATE FOR BOVINE MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL CULTURE

T. Tavor Re'em¹, E. Sklan²

¹Azrieli College of Engineering, Israel; ²Seevix Materials LTD, Israel

DEVELOPMENT OF A 3D RETINA-ON-A-CHIP USING TRIPLE-COAXIAL BIOPRINTING FOR UTILIZATION IN RETINAL VASCULAR DISORDERS

J. J. Kim¹, J. Jang¹, J. Y. Won², D.-W. Cho¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, POSTECH, Republic of Korea; ²Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, Republic of Korea

BILO: BRAIN IN THE LOOP OPTIMIZATION FOR COGNITIVE-DRIVEN ASSISTANCE

M. Sharbafi

TU DARMSTADT, Germany

EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXOSKELETON-ASSISTED REHABILITATION ON GAIT IN INDIVIDUALS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE

F. Spolaor³, M. Romanato¹, E. Pegolo¹, F. Fichera², G. Rigoni¹, A. Guiotto¹, A. Rizzetto², D. Volpe², Z. Sawacha¹

¹Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; ²Fresco Parkinson Center, Villa Margherita, S. Stefano, Vicenza, Italy; ³Pediatric Research Institute Città della Speranza, 35127 Padova, Italy

IMPACT OF THE MATE-XB BACK EXOSKELETON ON SPINAL LOAD DURING STANDARDIZED AND SEMI-REALISTIC LIFTING TASKS

M. Mosso¹, E. Scalona², M. I. Refai³, I. Pacifico⁴, N. F. Lopomo⁵, M. Sartori³

¹Università di Brescia, Italy; ²Centro Protesi INAIL, Italy; ³University of Twente, The Netherlands; ⁴IUVO S.r.l., Italy; ⁵Politecnico di Milano, Italy

USE OF A PASSIVE BACK-SUPPORT EXOSKELETON IN LOGISTICS - TRANSFER OF LAB FINDINGS TO A REALISTIC WORK SETTING

R. Van Sluijs¹, A. Brunner¹, O. Lambercy²

¹Auxivo AG, Switzerland; ²Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

EFFECTS OF TRAINING AND FAMILIARIZATION ON OCCUPATIONAL EXOSKELETON PERFORMANCE

A. Brunner¹, L. Kuoni², Q. Tedjasukmana², V. Bartenbach¹, O. Lambercy², R. van Sluijs¹

¹Auxivo AG, Switzerland; ²Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

IMPROVING THE SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN HUMAN MOVEMENTS AND A MOTORIZED EXOSKELETON

B. ITSKOVITCH KINER¹, S. Batcir², Y. Evron², A. Parush³, A. G Fischer²

¹Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; ²Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; ³Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

COMBINING VIRTUAL REALITY GAMING AND ACTIVE SITTING FOR POSTURAL CONTROL ANALYSIS: A DISCRIMINATORY VALIDITY STUDY

L. Mareschal¹, J. Genter¹, A. Kilchenmann¹, M. Mokni², T. Gurlie², Y. Marzouki², C. Bauer², D. Baumgartner¹

¹IMES Institute of Mechanical Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, School of Engineering, Winterthur; Switzerland; ²Therapy Science Lab, Lake Lucerne Institute, Vitznau, Switzerland

EFFECT OF L4-L5 DISC NUCLEOTOMY ON SPINE BIOMECHANICS USING A DETAILED MUSCULOSKELETAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL

A. Haghighi¹, N. Arjmand², M. El-Rich³, A. Shirazi-Adl⁴

¹Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Islamic Republic of; ²Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Islamic Republic of; ³Khalifa University, UAE; ⁴Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

MORPHING FEM MESHES OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC INTO MRI-DERIVED GEOMETRIES – A NEW METHOD

K. Nispel¹, T. Lerchl¹, G. Gruber¹, V. Senner², J. S. Kirschke¹

¹Institute of Neuroradiology, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Germany; ²Professorship of Sport Equipment and Sport Materials, Technical University of Munich, Germany

INVESTIGATION OF 3D STRAIN AND FIBRE CRIMP IN INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS DURING PHYSIOLOGICAL BENDING

T. Slater¹, V. van Heeswijk², A. Thambyah², N. Newell¹

¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ²University of Auckland, New Zealand

COMPARISON OF THE EXPERIMENTAL VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF HEALTHY BOVINE AND MATURE OVINE INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS

P. M. A. Alipat, M. Mengoni, R. Wilcox, N. Wijyathunga

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

EX VIVO AND IN SILICO INVESTIGATION OF COMBINED DYNAMIC COMPRESSION, TORSION, AND IL-1β IΝ INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS

K. B Crump^1,2, E. Muñoz-Moya⁴, K. de Graaf¹, P. Bermudez-Lekerika^1,2, C. Le Maitre³, J. Noailly⁴, B. Gantenbein^1,5

¹TOM Lab, Department for BioMedical Research, Medical Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland; ²Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland; ³Division of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, UK; ⁴BCN MedTech, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; ⁵Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Traumatology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland

PORO-VISCOELASTIC MODELING OF THE HUMAN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC BASED ON HIGH-RESOLUTION MRI-DERIVED MORPHOLOGY

F. Rieger¹, K. Raftery², A. Ristaniemi³, G. Samaras¹, N. Newell², E. Dall'Ara⁴, S. J. Ferguson¹

¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ²Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ³University of Eastern Finland, Finland; ⁴University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

DISC IN SPACE – RISK FACORS FOR ASTRONAUT DISC DISORDERS

L. Baumgartner, E. Muñoz-Moya, J. Noailly

Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

SPINAL FLEXION COMPENSATION IN ADULT SPINAL DEFORMITY 2-YEARS AFTER SURGERY

T. Leppens, B. Peeters, S. Schelfaut, L. Moke, L. Scheys

IORT, Belgium

EMERGING ELASTOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGIES WILL ENABLE NEXT GENERATION VISCOSITY AND NONLINEAR BIOMARKERS IN CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS

G. Rus

University of Granada, Spain

3D IMAGING OF SOFT-TISSUE ELASTICITY USING MULTIRESOLUTION FULL WAVEFORM INVERSION

A. Elmeliegy¹, R. Pitsinger¹, M. Urban², M. Guddati¹

¹NC State University, USA; ²Mayo Clinic, USA

OPTIMISIATION OF THE TOMOSAXS TECHNIQUE FOR MULTIMODAL SOFT TISSUE BIOMECHANICS USING SYNCHROTRON X-RADIATION

E. Newham¹, A. Parmenter², J. Chen², C. Disney³, T. Snow³, M. Sherratt⁴, J. Hoyland⁴, N. Terrill³, P. Lee², H. Gupta¹

¹Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; ²University College London, United Kingdom; ³Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom; ⁴University of Manchester, United Kingdom

BONE MICROARCHITECTURE FROM PHOTON-COUNTING CT AT VARIOUS RADIATION DOSES: COMPARISON WITH HR-PQCT

M. Bevers^1,2,3, S. Spinthaki⁴, J. Kok^2,3, C. Wyers^1,2, J. van den Bergh^1,2, B. van Rietbergen^2,3, R. Booij^4,5

¹VieCuri Medical Center, The Netherlands; ²Maastricht University, The Netherlands; ³Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; ⁴Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands; ⁵Linköping University, Sweden

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A MILLIFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR SLOW POSITRON SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES IN WET LIFE SCIENCE

M. Vicini¹, M. De Marchi¹, C. Martinelli¹, M. Laganà², C. Giordano¹, P. Folegati³, M. T. Raimondi¹, R. Ferragut³, C. Conci¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 – 20133, Milan, Italy; ²Gemma Advanced Prototypes, 20236 Erba (CO), Italy; ³Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 – 20133, Milan, Italy

INSIGHTS INTO CHONDROCYTE DYNAMICS DURING POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT: 3D VIRTUAL HISTOLOGY OF ARTICULAR CARTILAGE

K. Vanciková¹, M. Pierantoni², S. Moore¹, N. S. Khatib³, M. C. Labberté¹, S. Marathe⁴, P. A. Brama¹, H. Isaksson², N. C. Nowlan¹

¹University College Dublin, Ireland; ²Lund University, Lund, Sweden; ³Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; ⁴Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire, UK

INTRAVITAL OBSERVATION OF BIOENGINEERED AVIAN EMBRYOS USING NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

C. Conci¹, L. Cherubin¹, M. Laganà², C. Martinelli¹, D. Aquino³, F. Mazzi³, E. Jacchetti¹, M. Raimondi¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; ²Gemma Prototipi, Italy; ³Neuroradiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy

SEX DIFFERENCES IN POSTURAL CONTROL IN MIDDLE SCHOOL (11-14 YEARS) STUDENTS USING STABILOMETRY

E. M. Loovis¹, K. Pitetti², R. A. Miller², N. Hakansson²

¹Cleveland State University, United States of America; ²Wichita State University

EFFECT OF VIRTUAL REALITY-INDUCED POSTURAL THREAT ON CENTRE OF PRESSURE DISPLACEMENT

L. Michaud, M. Chik, H. Ong, Y. Lajoie

School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada

EVOLUTION OF SMOOTHNESS AND REGULARITY DURING THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW TOOL AMONG PROFESSIONALS

J. Dellai^1,2, M. A Gilles¹, L. Claudon¹, G. Dietrich²

¹INRS, France; ²I3SP - Université Paris-Cité, France

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM FOR UPPER LIMB MOTION ANALYSIS AND REHABILITATION BIOFEEDBACK

J. Griskevicius¹, K. Daunoraviciene¹, J. Ziziene¹, A. Maknickas¹, D. Matuzevicius¹, V. Abromavicius¹, A. Adomaviciene², J. Raistenskis³, R. Maskeliūnas⁴, A. Serackis¹

¹Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania; ²Vilnius University; ³Vilnius University Hospital Santaros klinikos; ⁴Kaunas University of Technology

REDUCING UNHELPFUL BACK BELIEFS DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY INFLUENCE LIFTING BIOMECHANICS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

S. Schmid^1,2, A. Müller-Schmid¹, P. Nagy¹, G. Christe³, C. Bangerter^1,2

¹Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ²University of Basel, Switzerland; ³University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland

VALIDATE GAIT VIDEO-BASED APPROACH FOR FLOQUET MULTIPLIER ANALYSIS IN GAIT STABILITY

J. Kim, S. Hwang, R. Kim, K. Park

Incheon National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

EXPLORING FULL-DAY LUMBAR SITTING POSTURE AND BEHAVIOUR IN INDIVIDUALS WITH LOW BACK PAIN: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

F. A. McClintock¹, A. J. Callaway¹, C. J. Clark¹, R. S. Alqhtani², J. M. Williams¹

¹Bournemouth University, United Kingdom; ²Najran University, Saudi Arabia

WALKING ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND METABOLIC COST ARE ELEVATED ON TREADMILLS THAN OVERGROUND ACROSS SPEEDS

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

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

DEVELOPING UPPER LIMB INERTIAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR CLINICIANS: A SURVEY OF NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS

M. F. McInnes, D. Blana, A. Starkey, E. K. Chadwick

University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

WITHIN-SESSION TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY OF A SMARTPHONE APPLICATION FOR MEASURING SPINAL MOTOR BEHAVIOUR

A. Cerrito¹, L. Mourot^2,3, A. von Aesch¹, S. Schmid^1,4, L. E. Raileanu², G. Christe³

¹Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ²School of Engineering and Management Vaud, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland; ³HESAV School of Health Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland; ⁴Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland

IMPACT OF A PASSIVE EXOSKELETON ON KINEMATICS, AND MUSCLE ACTIVITY DURING STAIR NAVIGATION: A SEX-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS

G. Garcia¹, P. Arauz², B. Martin³

¹Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador; ²Stony Brook University, United States of America; ³University of Michigan, United States of America

INNOVATIVE INSOLE TO REDUCE FOCAL PLANTAR PRESSURE

Y. Zhang¹, D. J. Barton², H. Smart², J. E. Lewis³

¹University of Wales Trinity Saint David, United Kingdom; ²Kaydiar Ltd, United Kingdom; ³Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

PASSIVE ANKLE EXOSKELETONS AND POSTURAL CONTROL: A CENTRE OF PRESSURE-BASED INVESTIGATION

R. Tavares¹, G. K R Williams¹, B. Dalton², C. McNeil², T. Dick³, D. J Farris¹

¹University of Exeter, United Kingdom; ²The University of British Columbia, Canada; ³University of Queensland, Australia

OPTIMAL ASSISTANCE FOR WEAKENED MUSCLES USING PNEUMATIC GEL MUSCLE ACTUATOR: A BILEVEL OPTIMIZATION APPROACH

G. RENGANATHAN¹, I. LUIS², E. M GUTIERREZ-FAREWIK², Y. KURITA¹

¹Hiroshima University, Japan; ²KTH MoveAbility, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

A SELF-ADAPTIVE TRANSFEMORAL PROSTHETIC SOCKET WITH A MOTORIZED CORSET

A. Z. Zaidi, M. G. Polizzotto, A. Menciassi, L. Paternò

The BioRobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

IN VIVO JOINT LOADS IN THE COURSE OF REHABILITATION AFTER HIP ARTHROPLASTY

G. Grillemeier¹, P. Damm¹, N. N. Schulle¹, S. Hardt², T. Winkler^1,2,3

¹Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ²Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; ³Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

AN INNOVATIVE ADJUSTABLE OFFLOADING ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS

E. Saffuri, L. Jordan, D. Solav

Technion Institute of Technology, Israel

REDUCING ARTEFACTS IN EMG SIGNAL ACQUISITION IN EXOSKELETON RESEARCH

I. Pitz¹, A.-K. Einfeldt², A. Dlugoszek¹, L. Matthies¹, P. Jahn³, C. Rußmann¹

¹HAWK, Göttingen, Germany; ²MHH, Hannover, Germany; ³UMH, Halle, MLU Halle-Wittenberg Germany

PASSIVE VS HYBRID UPPER-BODY EXOSKELETONS IN LIFTING AND OVERHEAD MAINTENANCE TASKS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

A. Piol¹, E. Scalona², M. Mosso¹, F. B. Garma Bushara¹, M. l. Cavallo³, G. Valli³, N. Pintori³, A. Ranavolo⁴, T. Varrecchia⁴, L. Falciati³, D. Brignani³, F. Negro³, N. F. Lopomo⁵

¹Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli studi di Brescia, Italy; ²Centro Protesi INAIL, Italy; ³Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Sperimentali, Università degli studi di Brescia, Italy; ⁴Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, INAIL, Italy; ⁵Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

COMPARISON OF BIPOLAR CONSTRUCT CONFIGURATIONS IN ADULT SPINE DEFORMITY: A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

C. Vergari¹, S. Persohn¹, S. Wolff², P.-E. Moreau², L. Miladi², G. Riouallon³

¹Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak, Paris, France; ²Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Paris Saint-Joseph Hospital Group, Paris, France; ³Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery Department, Necker University Hospital, APHP, University of Paris-Cité, Paris, France

CAN THE PASSIVE STIFFNESS OF HUMAN PARASPINAL MUSCLE TISSUE BE PREDICTED FROM CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA AND NUMBER OF FIBERS?

I. Dehghan Hamani¹, M. Malakoutian¹, J. Street¹, S. H M Brown², T. R Oxland¹

¹University of British Columbia, Canada; ²University of Guelph, Canada

ROD MATERIALS AND SCREW CONFIGURATION IN POST-CERVICAL LAMINECTOMY FUSION: A PERSONALIZED FE ANALYSIS

M. Nikkhoo², C.-H. Cheng², C.-C. Niu², K. Khalaf¹

¹Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates; ²Bone and Joint Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

BIOMECHANICAL AND CLINICAL EFFECTS OF SPINAL TRACTION: ENHANCING LUMBAR HEALTH AND RESTORING SPINE FUNCTION

A. Arieira¹, N. Fernandes¹, P. Fernandes³, F. Silva^1,2, Ó. Carvalho^1,2, A. Leal^1,2

¹CMEMS – Center for Microelectromechanical Systems, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal; ²LABBELS – Associate Laboratory in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Microelectromechanical Systems, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; ³North Lisbon University Hospital Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

OPTIMIZING ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PEDICLE SCREWS: BALANCING POROSITY AND STRUCTURAL STABILITY

H. Bae¹, J. Bae¹, H. W. Choi², B.-J. Lee³, K.-J. Yoo⁴, D. Lim^1,4

¹Dep. Mechanical Engineering, Sejong Univ., Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Engineering and Environmental Science Dep., College of Staten Island, The City Univ. of New York, New York, United States of America; ³Dep. of Neurosurgery, Inje Univ., Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea; ⁴Corporate Research Institute, RNX Co., Ltd, Bucheon, Republic of Korea

EVALUATING FLEXIBILITY OF SCOLIOTIC SPINE USING A NOVEL GENERIC SPINE MODEL FOR PREOPERATIVE PLANNING

Y. Su¹, A. I. Tsirikos², V. Koutsos¹, P. Pankaj¹

¹The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; ²Spinal Unit and Scottish Spinal Deformity Centre, United Kingdom

PREDICTION OF ADJACENT VETEBRAL BODY DEGENERATION POST LUMBAR FUSION SURGERY USING A DAMAGE BASED BONE REMODELING APPROACH

S. Ananth Swaminathan¹, N. Taheri¹, L. Becker¹, M. Pumberger¹, H. Schmidt¹, S. Checa^1,2

¹Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ²Institute of Biomechanics, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

INTERBODY FUSION CAGE REDUCING SUBSIDENCE RISK

J. Kok^1,2, J. C. Voellmicke³, R. Kasinath³, B. van Rietbergen^1,2, J. J. C. Arts^1,2

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; ²Maastricht University Medical Center+, Netherlands; ³J&J Orthopaedics, United States

DAMAGE SIMULATION DERIVED FROM DIAGNOSTIC CT IMAGING PREDICTS THE STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF HUMAN VERTEBRAE

Z. Soltani^1,2, R. Radovtizky³, D. Hackney⁴, N. Rehtanz¹, G. Chundi¹, R. Alkalay¹

¹Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Center for Advanced Orthopedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; ³Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; ⁴Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

INTERNAL STRAIN FIELD PROPAGATION IN METASTATIC HUMAN VERTEBRAE ASSESSED WITH DIGITAL VOLUME CORRELATION

S. Kunnoth¹, G. Cavazzoni², M. Palanca², E. Dall’Ara¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom; ²University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF VERTEBRAE USING AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION AND IMAGE-BASED NUMERICAL METHODS

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

¹Universitat Politécnica de València, Spain; ²Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Spain

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF KARATE ROUNDHOUSE KICK: SKILL LEVELS AND EXECUTION CONDITIONS

A. de la Torre Garcia, N. A. Boada Benitez, G. S. Teran Simbaña, G. Garcia

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

ELASTICITY AT THE TURNING POINT OF THE BACK SQUAT: A WEARABLE APPROACH

D. Hering^1,4, B. Achermann^3,4, S. Lorenzetti^2,4

¹Department of Physics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; ³Institute for Biomechanics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; ⁴Institute for Data Analysis and Process Design, ZHAW, Zurich, Switzerland

JEFFERSON CURL VS. ROMANIAN DEADLIFT: A SUBMAXIMAL ANALYSIS OF BACK MUSCLE ACTIVATION

T. Yona¹, B. Kalifa¹, S. Gildar¹, I. Har-Nir², A. G Fischer¹

¹Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; ²Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF DISTAL JOINTS OF EQUINE LIMB - A PILOT STUDY OF THE PREDICTION OF OVERLOAD INJURIES IN HORSES

K. Jankowski¹, K. Skierbiszewska², M. Pawlikowski¹, B. Turek², T. Jasiński², M. Domino²

¹Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; ²Warsaw University of Life Science, Poland

APPLICATION OF MECHANOBIOLOGICAL FRACTURE HEALING SIMULATIONS TO PEDIATRIC FRACTURES

A. Lipphaus^1,2, S. Hamad³, R. Remus⁴, R.-B. Tröbs⁵, U. Witzel¹

¹Biomechanics Research Group, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; ²Clinic of Pediatric Surgery, St.-Mary’s Hospital Witten, Germany; ³Biomechanics Lab, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany; ⁴Chair of Product Development, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; ⁵Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Vincenz Hospital Paderborn, Germany

NONINVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF EARLY TENDON DAMAGE IN AN IN VIVO OVERLOAD MODEL USING HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING

P. Chainani^1,2, D. Yeritsyan², N. Nafisi^1,2, M. V. Velasquez-Hamerle², A. Nazarian^1,2

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States of America; ²Boston University

DOES A REDUCTION IN BODY WEIGHT REDUCE JOINT FRICTION IN VIVO?

J. N. Zierke, A. Bender, G. N. Duda, P. Damm

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

PROBABILITY OF FRACTURE GIVEN A FALL DERIVED FROM BIOFIDELIC FEMS COMPARED TO T-SCORE AND FRAX

D. Jha^1,2, Y. Zhou¹, A. D Praveen¹, A. Baker², A. Fung², V. S. Cheong^1,3, P. Gupta⁴, E. L Lamoureux^4,5, N. Hong⁶, Y. Rhee⁶, H. Pálsson⁷, S. J Ferguson^1,2, B. Helgason^1,2

¹Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; ²ETH-Zürich, Switzerland; ³University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; ⁴Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore; ⁵Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; ⁶Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea; ⁷University of Iceland, Iceland

A SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR DETERMINING HIP JOINT CENTRE POSITION FOR MOTION CAPTURE

E. B. O'Regan, D. Dawson, K. Bryan

Munster Technological University, Ireland

TRIBOLOGICAL DEGRADATION OF THE ACETABULUM IN PRECLINICAL STUDIES: GEOMETRY VERSUS MATERIAL

R. Leonardo-Diaz, T. Rayment, S. Williams

Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS AND HYPERELASTIC MODELLING OF PORCINE GROWTH PLATES UNDER COMPRESSION

L. Hucke^1,2,3, G. Q. Teixeira⁴, A. Seitz⁴, A. J. Gámez², N. Hammer^3,5,6, A. Wittek¹, J. A. Niestrawska³

¹Frankfurt University of Applied Siences, Germany; ²University of Cádiz, Spain; ³Medical University Graz, Austria; ⁴Ulm University Medical Center, Germany; ⁵University of Leipzig, Germany; ⁶Fraunhofer IWU, Germany

SYMMETRIC NORMALIZATION ALGORITHM FOR ESTIMATING PHYSIOLOGICAL STRAIN IN BONES

P. Henyš¹, E. Dall’Ara³, S. Martelli²

¹Technical University of Liberec; ²Queensland University of Technology; ³University of Sheffield

VERIFICATION OF MICRO-FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS: CONVERGENCE ANALYSES ON TRABECULAR BONE MORPHOLOGY, APPARENT ELASTIC MODULUS, AND VON MISES STRESS

M. Zojaji, A. Correa Belloso, M. Van Klei, B. Yang, H. Ploeg

Queen's University, Canada

MICRO-FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE CORES: A CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS

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

Queen's University, Canada

HOW LESIONS WITH AXIAL-TRANSVERSE CORTICAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE THE FEMORAL SHAFT AFFECT FRACTURE RISK

A. Rizvi¹, C. E. Scott^2,3, S. Seth⁴, A. H. Simpson³, P. Pankaj¹

¹School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; ²Edinburgh Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK; ³Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, UK; ⁴School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK

STRESS AND STRAIN PREDICTION IN PEDIATRIC FEMORA: WHAT ARE THE INFLUENCES OF GEOMETRY AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES?

S. Kämpf¹, Y. Xu², J. Choisne²

¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ²Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

ESTIMATING ACTIVITY-SPECIFIC FRACTURE RISK IN FEMORA WITH METASTATIC LESIONS USING FINITE ELEMENT MODELS

L. Scheuring, D. H. Pahr, A. Synek

TU Wien, Austria

INVESTIGATING WATER'S ROLE IN FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR: A NOVEL HIGH-THROUGHPUT METHOD FOR ASSESSING HUMIDITY EFFECTS

M. Birocco¹, J. Michler², J. Schwiedrzik¹

¹Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, Dübendorf, Switzerland; ²Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Thun, Switzerland

INVESTIGATING BONE MICROSTRUCTURE WITH 3D ATUM-SEM-BASED IMAGING: IMPLICATIONS FOR PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

V. Vistoso, T. Ferté, O. Ersen, A. Carradó

CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, France

EXPLORING FLEXOELECTRIC PHENOMENA IN HUMAN BONE THROUGH A MICROMORPHIC CONTINUUM MODELING FRAMEWORK

A. Titlbach¹, A. Papastavrou¹, A. McBride², P. Steinmann^2,3

¹Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany; ²University of Glasgow, UK; ³Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

DEVELOPMENT OF REAL-TIME BIOFEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR UPPER EXTREMITY EXERCISES USING MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS

K. Šileikytė, J. Griškevičius

Vilniaus Gedimino Technical University, Lithuania

INSTAFEM: AN OPEN-SOURCE PYTHON LIBRARY FOR INVERSE STATICS FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS

F. Galbusera

Schulthess Clinic, Switzerland

DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTIGATION OF FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION FOR THE HUMAN ELBOW JOINT

J. Kasprzyk¹, M. Rychlik¹, R. Roszak¹, M. Ziegenhorn², J. Nowotny³

¹The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Poznan University of Technology, Poland; ²The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Energy Systems, Institute of Lightweight Design and Value-added Management, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany; ³University Center for Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus TU Dresden, Germany

AN IN VITRO BIOMECHANICAL TEST RIG FOR RIB OSTEOSYNTHESIS EVALUATION CONSIDERING NEGATIVE INTRATHORACIC PRESSURE

M. Martinovic, M. D. Hülskamp, M. Klimek, C. Kittl, S. Roßlenbroich, M. J. Raschke, O. Riesenbeck

University Hospital Münster, Germany

SMART SHOE FOR LOAD MONITORING AND INJURY PREVENTION

I. Rodrigues¹, J. Dias¹, J. Cotrim¹, A. Guerra¹, N. Ramião¹, T. Machado², P. Castro-Martins³, A. Marques³, M. Vaz¹, B. Areias¹

¹INEGI, Portugal; ²AMF-Safety Shoes, Portugal; ³ISEP, Portugal

OPTIMISING DIGITAL VOLUME CORRELATION ANALYSIS ACROSS DIFFERENT MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUES

A. L. Parmenter^1,2, C. Disney³, A. Sharma^1,5, F. Bosi¹, B. K Bay⁴, P. D Lee¹

¹University College London, United Kingdom; ²Research Complex at Harwell, United Kingdom; ³Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom; ⁴School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, USA; ⁵Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom

THE EFFECT OF FRACTURE LEVEL ON THE OVERLOADING OF DISTAL SCREWS IN INTRAMEDULLARY TIBIAL NAILS

J. L. M. Thiesen¹, K. E. Kojima², S. Toride³, R. Prado¹, E. A. Fancello¹, C. R. d. M. Roesler¹

¹Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; ²University of São Paulo, Brazil; ³Toride Implants Industry and Commerce, Brazil

A FRAMEWORK FOR REPLACING MEASURED GROUND REACTION FORCES WITH ANN-PREDICTED FORCES FOR JOINT MOMENT ESTIMATION IN OPENSIM

M. Abdullah¹, A. A. V. Hulleck¹, R. Katmah¹, N. Arjmand², K. Khalaf¹, M. El-Rich¹

¹Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; ²Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

MULTISCALE MODELING OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLE: AN ORIGINAL APPROACH OF PERIODIC REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS

A. LOUMEAUD^1,2, P. POULETAUT², S. F BENSAMOUN², D. GEORGE¹, S. CHATELIN¹

¹University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Inserm, ICube UMR 7357, Strasbourg, France; ²Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS, Biomechanics and Bioengineering, Compiègne, France

MODELLING PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE STRENGTH LOSS WITH AGEING AND SARCOPENIA

K. P. Nowakowska-Lipiec¹, H. Zadoń¹, R. Michnik¹, A. Nawrat-Szołtysik²

¹Department of Biomechatronics, Silesian University of Technology, Poland; ²Department of Physiotherapy in Internal Medicine, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Poland

BEYOND FIBERS: THE ROLE OF WATER AND PRESSURE IN SKELETAL MUCLE DYNAMICS

E. Henández-Alhambra¹, L. Teresi³, R. van der Sman⁴, J. Grasa^1,2

¹Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; ²Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBER-BBN), Spain; ³Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italia; ⁴Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

COMPARISON OF EMG-DRIVEN APPROACHES IN DETECTING NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL STRATEGIES IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

G. Rigoni¹, M. Dalle Vacche¹, F. Spolaor¹, D. Volpe², Z. Sawacha¹

¹Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Fresco Parkinson Center, Villa Margherita,Vicenza, Italy

ASSESSING UNPHYSIOLOGICAL MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL DEFORMATION AND CALIBRATION USING MUSCLE-TENDON LOAD LIMITS

L. V. Nölle¹, I. Wochner², M. Hammer¹, S. Schmitt^1,3

¹Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany; ²Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tübingen, Germany; ³Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science (SC SimTech), University of Stuttgart, Germany

DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING AN ARTISYNTH MULTIBODY MODEL FOR GAIT ANALYSIS

A. Denk¹, J. E. Lloyd², D. Raab¹, W. Kowalczyk¹

¹University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; ²University of British Columbia, Canada

MUSCULOSKELTAL MODELING OF THE SCOLIOTIC SPINE:SENSITIVITY OF JOINT LOADING TO JOINT CENTER POSITION

P. Bähler^1,2, S. Conticello^1,2, P. Büchler², S. Schmid^1,3

¹Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ²University of Bern; ³University of Basel

AUTOMATED SYNCHROTRON TOMOGRAPHY-BASED INVERSION PIPELINE FOR ESTIMATING ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF RAT VERTEBRAL ENDPLATE FINITE ELEMENT MODELS

J. Chen¹, A. Parmenter^1,2, A. Sharma¹, E. Newham³, E. Bele¹, S. Marussi², A. A Pitsillides⁴, C. Mitchell⁵, H. S Gupta³, P. D Lee^1,2

¹Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK; ²Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK; ³School of Engineering and Materials Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; ⁴Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK; ⁵Medical, Molecular and Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia

LIQUID CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES REGULATE HIERARCHICAL BONE-LIKE MINERALISATION

J. Chen¹, M. Birchall², A. MacRobert¹, W. Song¹

¹UCL Centre for Biomaterials in Surgical Reconstruction and Regeneration, Department of Surgical Biotechnology, Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, NW3 2PF, UK; ²UCL Ear Institute and Royal National Ear Nose and Throat and Eastman Dental Hospitals, University College London Hospitals, 47-49 Huntley St, London, WC1E 6DG, UK

HYDROGELS BY DESIGN: AN ENABLING PLATFORM OF MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED BIOMEDICINE

G. Ciardelli, M. Boffito

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

PHOTOACTIVE RARE EARTH ION DOPED FLUORAPATITES FOR ANTI-INFECTIVE DENTAL MATERIALS: COATINGS

L. Dawkins

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

ENGINEERED COMPOSITE HYDROGELS FOR IN SITU TISSUE REPAIR: ENHANCED ADHESION, POROSITY, AND IMMUNOMODULATION

S. Nejati, L. Mongeau

McGill University, Canada

BIOMEMTIC ENHANCEMT OF RESIN BONDING TO DENTIN

L. Singer¹, S. Karacic², G. Bierbaum², C. Bourauel¹

¹Oral Medicine Technology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany; ²Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany

ACETONE TREATMENT TO ENHANCE CELL ADHESION IN 3D-PRINTED PCL-BIOGLASS COMPOSITES FOR BONE REGENERATION

J. I. Contreras Raggio^1,2, M. F. Álamos¹, S. Llano¹, A. K. Aiyangar^2,3, C. Millán⁴, J. F. Vivanco¹

¹Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile; ²Laboratories for Mechanical Systems Engineering, EMPA, Dübendorf, Switzerland; ³Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile; ⁴Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology, Inselspital University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

MANUFACTURING BIOINSPIRED POLYMERIC HEART VALVE LEAFLET MATERIAL

P. Gupta^1,2,3, C. Hughes^1,2,3, A. Vahab¹, E. Campbell⁴, C. Lally^1,2,3, F. Digeronimo¹

¹Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; ²Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; ³Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; ⁴Structural Heart Division, Boston Scientific Corporation, Galway, Ireland

DEEP LEARNING PREDICTION OF ANASTOMOTIC LEAKS FROM COLORECTAL SURGERY IMAGES

E. Carvalho¹, G. Barbosa¹, A. Guerra¹, D. Oliveira¹, R. Moura^1,5, N. Ramião¹, F. Mendes^2,3,4, F. Fonseca⁶, A. Santos⁷, M. Mascarenhas^2,3,4

¹INEGI - Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Porto, Portugal; ²Department of Gastroenterology, São João University Hospital, Porto, Portugal; ³WGO Gastroenterology and Hepatology Training Center, Porto, Portugal; ⁴Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; ⁵Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; ⁶Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil, Lisboa, Portugal; ⁷BioGHP, Lisboa, Portugal

AUTOMATED FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGE REGISTRATION USING DIFFERENTIABLE RENDERER

J. Wang, F. Vogl, W. Taylor

ETHz, Switzerland

A PYTHON APPROACH DEVELOPMENT TO CONSTRUCT 3D CORONARY ARTERIES IN HYPEREMIA CONDITIONS

G. Rodrigues^1,2, M. Fernandes^1,2, J. Festas^1,2, S. I. Pinto^1,2

¹Engineering Faculty, University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal; ²Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (LAETA-INEGI), Porto, Portugal

VALIDATING INTERNAL DENSITY CALIBRATION IN THE PROXIMAL HUMERUS FOR STEMLESS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY

C. Stiles¹, B. Matheson², G. Athwal³, J. Callaghan¹, C. Dickerson¹, S. Boyd², N. Knowles¹

¹University of Waterloo, Canada; ²McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, University of Calgary, Canada; ³Roth|McFarlance Hand and Upper Limb Centre, Canada

WHOLE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIAL MASS QUANTIFICATION TO IMPROVE CORONARY TERRITORIES PERFUSION ESTIMATION

S. Anglese¹, A. Rosato¹, C. Corrado², C. Rizzi², A. Giamberti^2,3, M. Conti^1,4, M. Lo Rito²

¹3D and Computer Simulation Laboratory, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy; ²Congenital Cardiac Surgery Dept, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy; ³Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy; ⁴Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr), University of Pavia, Italy

BRILLOUIN MECHANICAL IMAGING FOR ALL-OPTICAL BIOMECHANICAL ASSESSMENT OF OSTEOPETROTIC BONE

M. Behrouzitabar¹, V. Alcolea-Rodriguez², M. Ventura², M. L. Schiavone³, C. Sobacchi^3,4, C. Manzoni², D. Polli^2,5,6, G. Cerullo^2,5, R. Vanna², G. Antonacci⁶

¹University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; ²CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (CNR-IFN), Italy; ³IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy; ⁴CNR-Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (CNR-IRGB), Italy; ⁵Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ⁶Specto Photonics, Italy

ANALYSIS OF MECHANICS OF CELLULAR NUCLEUS IN RENAL CARCINOMA USING FRACTAL DIMENSIONS

A. Srinivasan¹, S. Gokul¹, G. Manoj¹, S. Pugazhendhi¹, S. Sundaram², R. Swaminathan¹

¹Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; ²Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, India.

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION OF SHEEP PLACENTA MRI DATA USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS

D. Flouri^1,2, G. Adamides³, J. R. Darby⁴, S. L Holman⁴, A. S Panayides^3,5, A. L David⁶, V. Vavourakis^1,6, J. L Morrison⁴, A. Melbourne^2,6

¹University of Cyprus, Cyprus; ²King’s College London, UK; ³3AE Health LTD, Cyprus; ⁴University of South Australia, Australia; ⁵CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus; ⁶University College London, UK

PERFUSION IMAGING-BASED PERSONALIZED CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW QUANTIFICATION IN MOYAMOYA AND STROKE MECHANICS

A. SHRIVASTAVA¹, S. SANGHI¹, A. GARG², A. SURI², S. ROY¹

¹Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India; ²All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi (AIIMS New Delhi), India

AN EASY-TO-USE SEMI-AUTOMATED IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR SCRATCH WOUND HEALING ASSAYS

M. Carvalho^1,2,3, C. Martins-Lima^3,4, S. Monteiro-Reis³, M. P. Correia³, C. Jerónimo^3,5, J. Ferreira¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal; ²Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), Portugal; ³Cancer Biology and Epigenetics Group, Research Center of IPO Porto (CI-IPOP)/RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), Porto Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Porto.CCC), Portugal; ⁴Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy; ⁵Department of Pathology & Molecular Immunology, ICBAS-School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal

THE RE-REVISION RATE IN HIP ARTHROPLASTY IS SIMILAR FOR PRECEDING REVISIONS DUE TO ALL REASONS - EXCEPT FOR SEPTIC PRECEDING REVISIONS

L. Perka¹, Y. Wu², A. Grimberg², M. Morlock³

¹Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany; ²German Arthroplasty Registry (EPRD gGmbH), Berlin, Germany; ³TUHH Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

NANOMECHANICAL SIGNATURES AS PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS FOR COMBINED LOW-DOSE RADIATION AND IMMUNOTHERAPY IN LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA

S. Nizzero^1,2,3, P. Diogop Ndiaye¹, G. Srivastava¹, K. Graham¹, M. Wasley^1,3, M. Kim¹, M. Gachechiladze¹, N. Puebla Osorio³, P. Oertle¹, T. Appenzeller¹, V. Cristini², M. Loparic¹, M. Plodinec¹, J. W Welsh³

¹ARTIDIS AG, Switzerland; ²Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX; ³MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

BIOMECHANICS OF LUMBAR FUSION: IMPACT OF FUSION ANGLE AND LIGAMENT INTEGRITY ON EPIFUSIONAL INTRADISCAL PRESSURE

F. Cornaz¹, M. Jokeit^2,3, J. F. Schader^1,2,3, C. L. Harshbarger³, A. M. Schuler^1,2, A.-K. Calek¹, J. G. Snedeker^1,3, M. Farshad¹, J. Widmer²

¹Department of Orthopedics, Balgrist University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland; ²Spine Biomechanics, Department of Orthopedics, Balgrist University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland; ³Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

WEARABLES IN GAIT ASSESSMENT FOR STROKE AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE IN REAL-WORLD SETTINGS. A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

S. Neumann¹, J. Albites-Sanabria^1,2, A. C. Naef^1,3, L. Chiari^2,4, C. Easthope Awai¹

¹Data Analytics & Rehabilitation Technology (DART), Lake Lucerne Institute, Switzerland; ²Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering «Guglielmo Marconi», University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ³Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; ⁴Health Sciences and Technologies—Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research (CIRI-SDV), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

HEALTHCORE: A UNIFIED DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM FOR COLLECTION OF HEALTH DATA THROUGHOUT THE CONTINUUM OF CARE

E. Du¹, T. Weikert¹, T. Unger^1,2, C. Easthope Awai¹

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

BRIDGING PHYSICS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE: ADVANCING BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT WITH NANOMECHANIC

 . Raez¹, R. Burian¹,  . Briner¹, A.  Jizawi², S. Schädelin ¹, S. Muenst-Soystal1¹, T. Vlaijnic¹, E. Obermann¹, S. Dellas³, S. Forte⁴, Z. Marušić5⁵, C. Ortiz Velez², T. Appenzeller², P. Oertle², R. Lim⁶, M.  Loparic², V. Heinzelmann-Schwarz1¹, M. Plodinec²

¹University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; ²Artidis AG, Basel, Switzerland; ³University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; ⁴Radiology Clinic Baden, Baden,Switzerland; ⁵University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croati; ⁶Biozentrum, University ofBasel & Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

UNCOVERING NSCLC BIOMECHANICS: ADVANCING DIAGNOSIS AND EARLY RECURRENCE DETECTION WITH AFM

J. Alcaraz^1,2, E. Marín^1,2,3, H. Sanz-Fraile¹, M. Querol², P. Gausa², K. Neal¹, M. Arshakyan¹, M. Rico-Pastó¹, M. Boada⁴, D. Sanchez⁴, D. Martínez⁵, R. Oropesa Nunez⁶, G. Srivastava⁶, A. Jizawi⁶, C. Ortiz Velez⁶, S. Nizzero⁶, T. Appenzeller⁶, M. Loparic⁶, M. Plodinec⁶, N. Reguart^2,3

¹Unit of Biophysics and Bioengineering, Department of Biomedicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; ²Thoracic Oncology Unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain; ³Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain; ⁵Department of Anatomophatology, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain; ⁶ARTIDIS AG, Basel, Switzerland

GREENBONE SCAFFOLDS FOR BONE GRAFTING

E. Daskalakis¹, S. Loganathan¹, G. Morozzi⁴, E. Spettoli⁴, P. V Giannoudis³, A. Jha¹, E. M. Raif², N. Iqbal¹, A Ballardini⁴

¹School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT UK; ²Oral Biology Division, School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT UK; ³LIRMM, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT UK; ⁴GreenBone Ortho srl, Faenza, Italy

TISSUE ENGINEERED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION BARRIER USING KIDNEY ECM AND BACTERIAL CELLULOSE MEMBRANE

K. Gaddam, F. Pati

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

PERFUSION-BASED IN VITRO MODEL FOR OVARIAN CANCER

T. Tavor Re'em¹, A. Baskin¹, R. Reich²

¹Azrieli College of Engineering, Israel; ²School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

IN SILICO QUANTIFICATION OF THE STIFFNESS PERCEIVED BY CELLS GROWN INSIDE MICROPOROUS SCAFFOLDS

O. Santos-Lopes¹, D. Tzeranis^1,2,3, V. Vavourakis^1,4

¹University of Cyprus, Cyprus; ²University of Crete, Greece; ³Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece; ⁴University Collage London, United Kingdom

IMPACT OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON BIOLOGICAL TISSUES: A STUDY OF HISTOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

M. Casarin¹, M. Todesco², F. Dal Moro¹, A. Morlacco¹, A. Bagno²

¹Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Italy; ²Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

HYBRID MATERIALS: MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND IN VIVO PRELIMINARY BIOCOMPATIBILITY ASSESSMENT

M. Todesco¹, R. Luisetto², M. Casarin², E. Simoni³, L. Astolfi⁴, G. Gerosa⁵, C. G. Fontanella¹, A. Bagno¹

¹Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy; ²Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Italy; ³Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA)- Electron Microscopy Center, University of Ferrara, Italy; ⁴Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Italy; ⁵Department of Cardiac, Thoracic Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Italy

MECHANOBIOLOGY OF FIBROTIC PROGRESSION

C. Conci¹, A. Bocconi¹, L. Cherubin¹, C. Martinelli¹, G. Mainieri¹, G. Lodola¹, E. Jacchetti¹, M. Vicini¹, R. Martinez-Vazquez², R. Osellame², G. Cerullo³, M. Raimondi¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan, Italy; ²Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN)-CNR; ³Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

THE POWER OF MOTION: HOW CYCLIC LOADING OUTPERFORMS STATIC IN TENDON-TISSUE ENGINEERING

E. A. Oleinik^1,2, B. Külekci², A. H. Teuschl-Woller², P. J. Thurner¹

¹Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; ²Department Life Science Engineering, UAS Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria

ON THE VISCOELASTICITY OF TPMS-BASED SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING

F. Todescato², I. Teixeira², R. B. Ruben¹, P. R. Fernandes², P. Vena³, A. P. Castro^2,4

¹ESTG-CDRSP - Polytechnic University of Leiria, Portugal; ²IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; ³Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ⁴ESTSetúbal, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal

MICROSTRUCTURAL-BASED DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION FOR BONE IMPLANTS

F. Luppino¹, F. Recrosi¹, C. Falcinelli¹, M. L. De Bellis¹, M. Vasta¹, V. Gusella²

¹University of Studies "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Italy; ²Università degli Studi di Perugia

EFFECT OF CYCLIC MECHANICAL STIMULATION FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF 3D SCAFFOLD-FREE TISSUE CONSTRUCTS

T. Reuter¹, I. Ponomarev²

¹ICM e.V., Germany; ²fzmb, Germany

DEVELOPMENT OF 3D INJECTABLE SCAFFOLDS FOR MSC-BASED TISSUE REGENERATION AND IMMUNOMODULATION

C. Cortesi¹, L. Cherubin¹, C. Conci¹, C. Martinelli¹, B. M. Colosimo², D. Moscatelli¹, E. Mauri¹, G. Cerullo³, R. Osellame⁴, M. T. Raimondi¹, E. Jacchetti¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan, Italy; ²Department of Mechanics, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156, Italy; ³Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milan, Italy; ⁴Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN)-CNR

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT SCREW DIMENSIONS IN SCAPHOID FRACTURE FIXATION

E. Rothenfluh¹, S. Jain², W. R Taylor², S. H. Hosseini Nasab²

¹Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland; ²Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

NOVEL IN-SILICO PREDICTION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SCREW INSERTION-PULLOUT FROM STANDARD FOAM

L. Wang¹, E. Roberts², M. Slivka², D. Coombs²

¹Johnson & Johnson MedTech, UK; ²Johnson & Johnson MedTech, USA

INFLUENCE OF THE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ON THE FATIGUE PROPERTIES OF PEEK IMPLANTS

M. Kurkowski¹, S. Braun², T. Wolfram², M. Stommel^1,3

¹Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany; ²KLS Martin SE & Co. KG, Germany; ³TUD Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science, Germany

MECHANICAL EVALUATION OF THE KNEEREVIVER DEVICE IN KNEE JOINT DISTRACTION - A CADAVER STUDY

F. Janssen¹, T. Bitter¹, N. Verdonschot^1,2, D. Janssen¹

¹Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands; ²University of Twente, The Netherlands

IS A REDUCED COMPRESSING TIME SUFFICIENT FOR CEMENTED PATELLA BUTTON STABILITY?

L. Bauer¹, B. Bartz¹, T. N. D. Vu¹, G. Matziolis², M. Woiczinski¹

¹Experimental Orthopaedics, University Hospital Jena, Campus Eisenberg, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany; ²Orthopaedics, University Hospital Jena, Campus Eisenberg, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

LATERAL-STABILIZED TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY SYSTEMS ENABLE PHYSIOLOGICAL KINEMATIC DURING FLEXION

P. Moewis¹, R. Ehrig^1,2, A. Trepczynski¹, J. Tykfer³, H. Hommel⁴, G. N. Duda¹

¹Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ²Zuse Institut Berlin, Germany; ³implantcast GmbH, Germany; ⁴Krankenhaus Märkisch-Oderland, Germany

SIMULATION OF A CUSTOM-MADE TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT – AN ACADEMIC VIEW ON AN INDUSTRIAL WORKFLOW

A. Andres¹, K. Wickert¹, E. Gneiting², F. Binmoeller², S. Diebels¹, M. Roland¹

¹Saarland University, Applied Mechanics, Saarbrücken, Germany; ²KLS Martin SE & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany

EVALUATING THE NEED FOR DISTAL SCREW IN FEMORAL NAIL FOR NECK FRACTURES FIXATION: A FINITE ELEMENTS STUDY

E. Bori^1,2, B. Maaref¹, N. Priest¹, A. Levander¹, B. Thienpont¹, C. Ciatti^3,4

¹Health Department, ECAM Brussels Engineering School, Belgium; ²BEAMS Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; ³Orthopaedics and traumatology department, Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, AUSL Piacenza, Italy; ⁴University of Parma, Italy

BIOMIMETIC BRAIDS FOR ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION: IMPACT OF THE FILAMENT ARRANGEMENT ON STRAIN AT PHYSIOLOGICAL LOADS

S. Hesse, B. Bauer, T. Gries, C. Emonts

Institut für Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen, Germany

EFFECT OF DESIGN AND FIXATION TECHNIQUE IN TKA PERFORMANCE

M. Sisella¹, L. Allegri², B. Innocenti¹

¹BEAMS Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; ²University of Florence, Italy

REPLICATING BONE BEHAVIOR USING 3D-PRINTED STRUCTURE BASED ON TRIPLY PERIODIC MINIMAL SURFACES

J. Claude^1,2, R. Gauthier¹, C. Olagnon¹, H. Follet²

¹INSA Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, MatéIS UMR 5510, France; ²Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM, LYOS U1033, France

REDUCED SUBSIDENCE RISK OF TITANIUM FIBRE BASED TLIF CAGES WITH TUNEABLE STIFFNESS VS. SOLID IMPLANTS IN-SILICO

M. Rüger¹, T. Smit², O. Andersen³

¹University Children´s Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Adems GmbH, Basel, Switzerland; ³Fraunhofer IFAM, Dresden, Germany

TOUGHENING OF SELECTIVE LASER SINTERED POLYETHERKETONE IMPLANTS FOR BONE-REPAIR

W. T. Lewin^1,2, C. Kocer², S. A. Holt³, H. V. Kruse^1,2, J. M. Crook^1,2,4, D. R. McKenzie^1,2

¹Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, Australia; ²The University of Sydney, Australia; ³Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia; ⁴The University of Wollongong, Australia

THE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF FOCAL MUSCLE VIBRATION ON MOTOR LEARNING AND BRAIN ACTIVITY

I.-H. Tseng, L.-W. Chou

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

EYE-HAND KINEMATIC COORDINATION DURING COGNITIVE TASKS USING AI AND MOBILE DEVICE STEREOPHOTOGRAPHY

Y.-F. Lu^1,2, C.-H. Yu¹, H.-L. Chen^3,4, F. Y.-S. Lin^2,4, T.-W. Lu^1,4

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; ²Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; ³Department of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; ⁴Health Science & Wellness Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

MUSCLE SYNCRONIZATION AND REDUCED SELF-ESTEEM IN YOUNG STUDENTS

J. Rubert Gil, J. Epifanio, R. G. Andrzejak, S. Tassani

Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Department of Engineering, Barcelona, Spain

FUNCTIONAL ALTERATIONS IN NEUROMUSCOLAR PERFORMANCE DURING DROP JUMP AFTER ACL RECONSTRUCTION

A. Ranzini¹, A. Pellegrini¹, M. Nitri¹, C. Alessandro², F. Negro³, M. Nardon², C. L. Blanchet², A. Rossoni², M. Crippa², M. Turati², M. Bigoni², F. Esposito¹, M. Zago¹

¹Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; ²Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy; ³Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy

BALL TYPE-DEPENDENT NEUROMECHANICAL ADJUSTMENTS IN POSTURAL CONTROL DURING CATCHING

Y. Kim¹, H. Kim^1,2, T. Kong², G. Lee², E. Bressel³

¹Department of Sports Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); ²Department of Software Convergence, Soonchunhyang University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); ³Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, Utah State University, United States of America

A HYBRID KINEMATIC AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO FUTURE JOINT ANGLE ESTIMATION AT THE ANKLE

R. Pollard¹, J. Brokamp¹, I. Ulloa-Nail¹, A. Fischer², M. Zabala¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University - United States of America; ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology - Israel

GAUSSIAN CONSTITUTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS WITH CORRELATED PARAMETERS

J. A. McCulloch

Stanford University, United States of America

PREDICTING CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY USING MACHINE LEARNING

H. SeyedHosseini, P. Favre

Zimmer Biomet GmbH, Switzerland

CONVEX NEURAL NETWORKS LEARN GENERALIZED STANDARD MATERIAL MODELS

M. Flaschel¹, P. Steinmann¹, L. De Lorenzis², E. Kuhl¹

¹FAU Erlangen, Germany; ²ETH Zürich, Switzerland

MACHINE LEARNING MODELS AS IMPUTATION TECHNIQUE IN GAIT ANALYSIS: APPLICATION TO FRAGILE X SYNDROME’S EMG DATA

F. Beghetti¹, F. Spolaor^1,2, G. Rigoni¹, V. Liani³, R. Polli^2,3, D. Varagnolo⁴, Z. Sawacha¹

¹Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Pediatric Research Institute Città della Speranza, Padova, Italy; ³Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; ⁴Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

GRAIN SIZE MEASUREMENT OF CERAMIC IMPLANTS USING DEEP LEARNING

S. Jakobs

RMS Foundation, Switzerland

APPLICATIONS OF 3D MACHINE LEARNING IN HR-PQCT IMAGING

G. Degenhart¹, J. Bereiter-Payr^1,2, C. Angermann², M. Haltmeier³, B. Dejakum⁴, M. Knoflach⁴, R. Bale¹

¹Core facility MicroCT, Univ. Clin. for Radology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria; ²VASCage -Centre on Clinical Stroke Research, Austria; ³Dept. of Mathematics Univ. Innsbruck, Austria; ⁴Dept. for Neurology Med. Univ. Innsbruck, Austria

RELATIVE BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT USING 4D FLOW MRI : A PHYSICS-INFORMED NEURAL NETWORKS APPROACH

A. Caltran^1,2, T. Puiseux⁴, B. Garmy-Susini¹, F. Z. Mokrane^1,3, R. Moreno^1,4

¹I2MC, Inserm UMR 1297, Toulouse, France; ²Siemens Healthcare SAS, Courbevoie, France; ³Service de radiologie CHU Rangueil, Toulouse, France; ⁴Spin Up, ALARA Group, Entzheim, France

DEEP LEARNING-BASED PREDICTION OF JOINT KINEMATICS IN PARKINSONIAN PATHOLOGICAL GAIT USING IMU SENSORS

R. Lin, D. Wang, X. Hua

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

GENERATIVE AI-AUGMENTED SYNCHROTRON IMAGING FOR UNDERSTANDING BONE MECHANOBIOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS

F. Buccino¹, M. Masrouri⁴, G. Tromba², G. Banfi³, Z. Qin⁴, L. M. Vergani¹

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²University of Syracuse, USA; ³Elettra Synchrotron, Italy; ⁴IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy

TOWARDS LINKING HISTOPATHOLOGY TO LIVER VISCOELASTICITY

H. Shah, M. Guddati

NC State University, United States of America

INCORPORATING REGIONAL MATERIAL PARAMETERS IN SIMULATING TUMOR GROWTH AND CEREBRAL ATROPHY

N. Tueni, E. Griffiths, S. Budday

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany

CHARACTERIZING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF COLORECTAL CANCER USING A MOUSE MODEL

C. B. Durcan¹, V. Rajasekaran², S. M. Farrington², R. L. Reuben¹, W. N. MacPherson¹, D. P. Hand¹, Y. Chen¹

¹Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom; ²The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PERMEABILITY MODELS FOR REAL-TIME PERMEABILITY ESTIMATION DURING TISSUE GROWTH DYNAMICS

M. J. A. Bedding-Tyrrell¹, A. Arefin², B. Sandnes¹, P. Nithiarasu¹, P. Egan², F. Zhao¹

¹Swansea University, United Kingdom; ²Texas Tech University, USA

THE USE OF DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION (DIC) IN COMPLEX BIOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

H. Arora, D. O’Connor, T. Pritchard, M. Darcy, R. van Loon

Biomedical Engineering Simulation and Testing (BEST) Lab, Swansea University, United Kingdom

STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF NEWT TENDON REGENERATION AFTER COMPLETE TRANSECTION

T. Kamiya¹, Y. Ito¹, T. Iwasaki², D. Suzuki³, T. Hayashi⁴, J. Kim¹, T. Matsumoto¹, E. Maeda¹

¹Nagoya University, Japan; ²Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; ³Hokkaido Chitose College of Rehabilitation, Japan; ⁴Hiroshima University, Japan

METAMATERIALS FOR SOFT TISSUE ENGINEERING: REALIZATION, MECHANICAL TESTING AND COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION

A. Berardo^1,2, S. Pettenuzzo¹, G. Dolino^2,3, D. Coato^2,3, P. Gargiulo³, E. L. Carniel³

¹Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ³Institute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering, Reykjavík University, Menntavegur 1, 102, Reykjavík, Iceland

DEVELOPING SUB-RUPTURE INJURY MODELS ON PORCINE MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENTS USING DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS

S. Hafeji¹, R. Wilkins², C. Brockett³, A. Herbert¹, J. Edwards¹

¹Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; ²Clinical Biomechanics & Physical Medicine, Chapel Allerton Hospital, United Kingdom; ³Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

DEVELOPMENT OF SURROGATE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE AND MENISCI FOR A KNEE MOCKUP

F. Renders, L. Labey

KU Leuven, Belgium

MECHANICAL POWER-BASED PRE-STRESSING ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRAINED MIXTURE MODELS IN SOFT TISSUE GROWTH AND REMODELING

T. Díaz Jordá, M. Latorre, S. Parikh

Center for Research and Innovation in Bioengineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

A ROBOTIC TEST SETUP FOR BIOTRIBOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON COMPLEX SHAPED CARTILAGE SURFACES

L. de Roy¹, M. Roderigo¹, J. Schwer¹, K. Schlickenrieder², A. Ignatius¹, A. Seitz¹

¹Institute of Orthopedic Research and Biomechanics, Ulm University Medical Center, Germany; ²Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Production Engineering and Management, Ulm, Germany

PREDICTION OF HEMODYNAMICS IN HEALTHY MITRAL VALVES: VALIDATION OF FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION SIMULATIONS

L. Christierson^1,2, P. Frieberg³, P. Liuba¹, E. Hedström³, J. Revstedt⁴, H. Isaksson², N. Hakacova¹

¹Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden; ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden; ³Department of Energy Science, Lund University, Sweden; ⁴Department of Clinical Physiology, Skåne Univ. Hospital, Sweden

FULLY COUPLED MULTI-SPECIES MECHANO-TRANSPORT SIMULATIONS IN THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC

E. Muñoz-Moya, Z. Workineh, C. Ruiz Wills, G. Piella, J. Noailly

BCN MedTech, Department of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain