... because strength alone may not be sufficient to fully characterize the structural failure of a vertebra. Apart from bone quantity, the regional variation of cancellous architecture would have a role in governing the mechanical properties of vertebrae. In this study, we estimated various microstructural...

... in vertebrae using μ CT imaging. A strain quantification method was developed that used two sequential μ CT scans, taken in loaded and unloaded configurations. The image correlation algorithm implemented was a multiresolution intensity matching deformable registration that found a series of affine mapping...