Optimal principle of bone structure.

Bone modeling and remodeling is an optimization process where no agreement has been reached regarding a unified theory or model. We measured 384 pieces of bone in vivo by 64-slice CT and discovered that the bone's center of mass approximately superposes its centroid of shape. This phenomenon in...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Yifang Fan, Yubo Fan, Zhiyu Li, Mushtaq Loan, Changsheng Lv, Zhang Bo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3241678?pdf=render