Abstract: Knowledge of the nature of the elastic symmetry of trabecular bone is fundamental to the study of bone adaptation and failure. Previous studies have classified human vertebral trabecular bone as orthotropic or transversely ...

Abstract: Intraand interspecimen variations in trabecular anisotropy are often ignored in quantitative computed tomography (QCT)based finite element (FE) models of the vertebra. The material properties are typically estimated solely ...