期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
卷 49, 期 16, 页码 3882-3890出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.10.018
关键词
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC); Micro-CT; Strain measurement uncertainties; Augmented and natural vertebrae
资金
- Royal Society (University of Portsmouth) [RG130831]
- EPSRC (University of Sheffield, project MultiSim) [EP/K03877X/ 1]
- European Society of Biomechanics (Mobility Award)
- EPSRC [EP/K03877X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K03877X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) has become popular for measuring the strain distribution inside bone structures. A number of methodological questions are still open: the reliability of DVC to investigate augmented bone tissue, the variability of the errors between different specimens of the same type, the distribution of measurement errors inside a bone, and the possible presence of preferential directions. To address these issues, five augmented and five natural porcine vertebrae were subjected to repeated zero strain micro-CT scan (39 mu m voxel size). The acquired images were processed with two independent DVC approaches (a local and a global one), considering different computation sub-volume sizes, in order to assess the strain measurement uncertainties. The systematic errors generally ranged within 100 microstrain and did not depend on the computational sub-volume. The random error was higher than 1000 microstrain for the smallest sub-volume and rapidly decreased: with a sub-volume of 48 voxels the random errors were typically within 200 microstrain for both DVC approaches. While these trends were rather consistent within the sample, two individual specimens had unpredictably larger errors. For this reason, a zero-strain check on each specimen should always be performed before any in-situ micro-CT testing campaign. This study clearly shows, that, when sufficient care is dedicated to preliminary methodological work, different DVC computation approaches allow measuring the strain with a reduced overall error (approximately 200 microstrain). Therefore, DVC is a viable technique to investigate strain in the elastic regime in natural and augmented bones. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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