A new finite element based parameter to predict bone fracture

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Autoři: Chiara Colombo ^aff001; Flavia Libonati ^aff001; Luca Rinaudo ^aff002; Martina Bellazzi ^aff001; Fabio Massimo Ulivieri ^aff003; Laura Vergani ^aff001
Působiště autorů: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy ^aff001; TECHNOLOGIC S.r.l. Hologic Italia, Lungo Dora Voghera, Torino, Italy ^aff002; Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Nuclear Medicine-Bone Metabolic Unit, Milano, Italy ^aff003
Vyšlo v časopise: PLoS ONE 14(12)
Kategorie: Research Article
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225905

Souhrn

Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) is currently the most widely adopted non-invasive clinical technique to assess bone mineral density and bone mineral content in human research and represents the primary tool for the diagnosis of osteoporosis. DXA measures areal bone mineral density, BMD, which does not account for the three-dimensional structure of the vertebrae and for the distribution of bone mass. The result is that longitudinal DXA can only predict about 70% of vertebral fractures. This study proposes a complementary tool, based on Finite Element (FE) models, to improve the DXA accuracy. Bone is simulated as elastic and inhomogeneous material, with stiffness distribution derived from DXA greyscale images of density. The numerical procedure simulates a compressive load on each vertebra to evaluate the local minimum principal strain values. From these values, both the local average and the maximum strains are computed over the cross sections and along the height of the analysed bone region, to provide a parameter, named Strain Index of Bone (SIB), which could be considered as a bone fragility index. The procedure is initially validated on 33 cylindrical trabecular bone samples obtained from porcine lumbar vertebrae, experimentally tested under static compressive loading. Comparing the experimental mechanical parameters with the SIB, we could find a higher correlation of the ultimate stress, σ_ULT, with the SIB values (R²_adj = 0.63) than that observed with the conventional DXA-based clinical parameters, i.e. Bone Mineral Density, BMD (R²_adj = 0.34) and Trabecular Bone Score, TBS (R²_adj = -0.03). The paper finally presents a few case studies of numerical simulations carried out on human lumbar vertebrae. If our results are confirmed in prospective studies, SIB could be used—together with BMD and TBS—to improve the fracture risk assessment and support the clinical decision to assume specific drugs for metabolic bone diseases.

Klíčová slova:

Bone and mineral metabolism – Bone fracture – Bone imaging – Grayscale – Spine – Stiffness – Vertebrae

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