• DocumentCode
    3684086
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    921
  • Lastpage
    924
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • ISSN
    1094-687X
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1558-4615
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318513
  • Filename
    7318513