abstract

• The mechanical behavior of the C1–C2 cervical spine is studied by the biomodeling of vertebrae with an optical scanner (ATOS Gesellschaft für optische Messtechnik). Full-field 3D coordinates are provided for each individual measurement. Biomodeling is an exact three-dimensional replica of any bone in the human body, which is obtained by scanning or tomography to obtain all dimensions. ATOS Core uses a stereoscopic camera based on the principle of triangulation. The objective of the study is to develop a numerical model that allows, using the finite element method (FEM), to study the biomechanical behavior of the human vertebral unit composed of the cervical vertebrae C1 and C2. The FEM method is used to investigate the probable failure sites under prescribed loading; this is performed in ANSYS (Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc.) using the VON-Mises criterion. It was possible to develop the methodology to obtain the numerical model of C1–C2 with a resolution of 16 million points of some vertebrae provided by the Universidad Veracruzana, School of Medicine, Poza Rica-Tuxpan campus. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.

publication date

• 2024-01-01

published in

• Advanced Structured Materials  Journal

keywords

• ANSYS finite element software; Cervical; Finite element method; Mechanical behavior; Optical scanner Musculoskeletal system; Stereo image processing; ANSYS finite element software; BioModeling; Cervical; Cervical spine; Cervical vertebra; Element method; Finite element software; Mechanical behavior; Optical scanners; Static conditions; Optical recording

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/978-3-031-60920-6_25

PubMed ID

start page

• 349

end page

• 359

volume

• 209

issue