The Characterization of Bovine Compact Bone Fatigue Damage Using Terahertz Spectroscopy

Overview

Journal Z Med Phys

Specialty Radiology

Date 2022 Jun 28

PMID 35764468

Authors

Xianjia Meng

Qinghua Qin

Chuanyong Qu

Kai Kang

Zhiyong Wang

Wei Qiu

Chuan Qu

Donghui Fu

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Abstract

Fatigue can cause cracks to propagate from the micro- to the macroscale, which results in a decrease of Young's modulus of the bone. Non-destructive measurements of bone fatigue damage are of great importance for bone quality assessment and fracture prevention. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of effective nondestructive methods sensitive to the initial deterioration during damage accumulation, particularly in the field of orthopedics and biomechanics. In this study, terahertz spectroscopy was adopted to evaluate microscale bone damage. Specifically, the refractive index and Young's modulus of bone samples subjected to different degrees of fatigue damage were tested at a fixed area. Both parameters are found to decrease in two stages under cycled fatigue loading, which is attributed to the initial onset and subsequent development of microdamage during fatigue loading. The change in refractive index reflects the accumulation of fatigue damage as well as the decrease in Young's modulus.

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