1. Date of download: 12/28/2017
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From: Patient-Specific Finite-Element Analyses of the Proximal Femur with Orthotropic Material Properties Validated by Experiments
J Biomech Eng. 2011;133(6): doi: /
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Schematic flow chart describing the generation of the p-FE model from QCT scans: (a) typical CT-slice, (b) contour identification, (c) smoothing boundary points, (d1) points cloud representing the bone surface, (d2) close splines for all slices, (e) bone surface, (f) p-FE mesh, and (g) material evaluation from CT data