Title :
A mechano-regulatory model for bone healing predictions under the influence of ultrasound
Author :
Maria G. Vavva;Konstantinos N. Grivas;Aurélie Carlier;Demosthenes Polyzos;Liesbet Geris;Hans Van Oosterwyck;Dimitrios I. Fotiadis
Author_Institution :
Demosthenes Polyzos are with the the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, GR 26 500, Greece
Abstract :
The bone healing process involves a sequence of cellular action and interaction, regulated by biochemical and mechanical signals. Experimental studies have shown that ultrasound accelerates bone solidification and enhances the underlying healing mechanisms. An integrated computational model is presented for deriving predictions of bone healing under the presence of ultrasound.
Keywords :
"Bones","Biological system modeling","Ultrasonic imaging","Mathematical model","Predictive models","Adaptation models","Blood vessels"
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Electronic_ISBN :
1558-4615
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318513
