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Journal Articles The Visual Computer Year : 2011

Subject-specific knee joint model: Design of an experiment to validate a multi-body finite element model

Abstract

The availability of a validated subject-specific model of the knee joint would be extremely useful for the orthopaedic surgeon in evaluating the biomechanics of the joint of a patient, especially when suspecting an injury of one or more components. The aim of this paper was to describe a procedure designed and developed to validate a subject-specific model of the human knee. The proposed approach considers the use of clinical images to create a multi-body finite element model of a healthy knee. The same joint must undergo an experimental test aimed at collecting the data necessary to validate the model predictions. Therefore, the experimental set-up must be designed to monitor all the degrees of freedom of the joint, allowing the replication of the loading conditions in silico with a finite element (FE) model. At the moment, an animal model is used to verify the accuracy and repeatability of the developed procedure.

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inria-00616200 , version 1 (19-08-2011)

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C. Öhman, D.M. Espino, Tobias Heimann, M. Baleani, Hervé Delingette, et al.. Subject-specific knee joint model: Design of an experiment to validate a multi-body finite element model. The Visual Computer, 2011, 27, pp.153--159. ⟨10.1007/s00371-010-0537-8⟩. ⟨inria-00616200⟩
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