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Study of the variations of fall induced hip fracture risk between right and left femurs using CT-based FEA

BACKGROUND: Hip fracture of elderly people—suffering from osteoporosis—is a severe public health concern, which can be reduced by providing a prior assessment of hip fracture risk. Image-based finite element analysis (FEA) has been considered an effective computational tool to assess the hip fractur...

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Autores principales: Faisal, Tanvir R., Luo, Yunhua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5627442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28974207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12938-017-0407-y