Synchrotron Tomography-Based Inversion Pipeline for Estimating Elastic Properties of Rat Vertebral Endplate Finite Element Models
Jishizhan Chen, Alissa Louise Parmenter, Aikta Sharma, Elis Newham, Eral Bele, Sebastian Marussi, Andrew A. Pitsillides, Nicholas J. Terrill, Christopher Mitchell, Himadri S. Gupta, Peter David Lee
This paper develops an inversion pipeline using synchrotron tomography and digital volume correlation to estimate elastic properties of rat vertebral endplates, showing high spatial agreement between FEM predictions and experimental data.
Acta Biomaterialia · Mar 18, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering