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Publications in Scientific Journals:

D. H. Pahr, P.K. Zysset:
"From High-Resolution CT Data to Finite Element Models: Development of an Integrated Modular Framework";
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 12 (2009), 1; 45 - 57.



English abstract:
New ideas for the extraction of finite element (FE) models from high-resolution computed tomography datasets are presented. The multi-step approach starts with a 3D region-growing algorithm in order to extract the outer voxel based iso-surface. This information is used to compute a voxel model of the cortical shell. The next step provides triangulated surfaces of the outer bone contour. Three-dimensional deformable models using a gradient vector flow and a multi-level mesh resampling are used. These meshes are self-regularising and of high quality. A further step contains a new self correcting cortical shell thickness evaluation algorithm, which results in topological conform smooth inner and outer compact bone iso-surface meshes. Such iso-surfaces can be used for numerically efficient FE models, which are of bio-mechanical and clinical importance. Details of the approach are described and applications with respect to a human proximal femur and vertebral body are shown.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10255840802144105



Related Projects:
Project Head Dieter H. Pahr:
Entwicklung eines Skriptmanagers für biomedizinische Anwendungen