Numerical simulation of mechanically stimulated bone remodelling

Abstract

The numerical simulation of bone remodelling provides a great opportunity to improve the choice of therapy in particular for complex bone defects. Despite this fact, its use in clinical practice is not yet expedient because of several unresolved problems. In this paper a new bone remodelling algorithm based on standard computer tomography datasets and finite element analysis is introduced.

Keywords

• bone remodelling
• computed tomography
• finite-element analysis
• numerical stimulation