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Incorporation of CT-based measurements of trunk anatomy into subject-specific musculoskeletal models of the spine influences vertebral loading predictions

Alexander G. Bruno, Hossein Mokhtarzadeh, Brett T. Allaire, Kelsey R. Velie, M. Clara De Paolis Kaluza, Dennis E. Anderson, Mary L. Bouxsein. Incorporation of CT-based measurements of trunk anatomy into subject-specific musculoskeletal models of the spine influences vertebral loading predictions. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. January 16 2017.

Publication Date
January 2017

How Analyze was Used
“We measured cross-sectional areas and positions of the trunk muscles from transverse CT scans using a commercial image-processing platform, Analyze software (ref), that we customized for this purpose, as previously described.”

Keywords
Subject-specific, Musculoskeletal model, Spine curvature, Trunk muscle morphology, Vertebral loading

Author Affiliation(s)
Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA

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