Abstract—Our research employs FEM to simulate the evolution of an orthopedically treated vertebral fracture and compares the result against the real healing process observed through CT and X-ray investigations. Applying FEM to the simulation of vertebral fracture healing is an original endeavor in studying the evolution of the fracture stability and represents a theoretical pretest for applying the FEM in the prediction of fracture healing progress.
Index Terms—lumbar fracture, finite element method (fem), computer tomography (CT).
S. Anghel and T. Bățagă are with Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie Tirgu-Mureș, Romania (e-mail: steliananghel@yahoo.com, Tbataga@gmail.com).
C. Dogariu is with the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania (e-mail: cdogariu@gmail.com).
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Cite: Stelian Anghel, Tiberiu Bățagă , and Constantin Dogariu, "A Finite Element Approach to Predict the Post-treatment Evolution of an Orthopedically Treated Vertebral Body Fracture," International Journal of Modeling and Optimization vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 296-299, 2017.
