... the distribution of material properties based on bone mineral density, and these properties were then mapped onto the finite element mesh. A sensitivity study was first conducted on a calibration phantom to understand the influence of the size of the material blocks on the computed bone mineral density...

... there was a weak trend for the magnitude of the strength bounds to be inversely proportional to bone mineral density ( R 2 = 0.32 , p = 0.02 ), both upper and lower bound vertebral strength measures were well predicted by the strength response under uniform displacement loading conditions ( R 2 = 0.91 and R 2...