Kevin M. Labus

TL;DR: In this article, the pooled median of individual model results, similar to a probabilistic approach, can be used as an improved predictive tool in order to estimate the response of the lumbar spine.

TL;DR: A biaxial tensile experiment was designed to more fully characterize the anisotropy of white matter in a quasi-static loading state, and the mechanical data were modeled with an anisotropic hyperelastic continuum model, which demonstrated a significant, but relatively low anisotrop behavior.

TL;DR: Biaxial stress relaxation and cyclic experiments were conducted on corpus callosum tissue isolated from fresh ovine brains and demonstrated the relaxation behavior to be independent of strain magnitude, and a quasi-linear viscoelastic model was able to accurately fit the experimental data.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that an osteoinductive scaffold, fabricated by combining a 3D printed rigid polymer/ceramic composite scaffold with an rhBMP-2-eluting collagen sponge can treat extremely large-scale segmental defects in the sheep metatarsus.

TL;DR: Finite element analysis of the interlamellar compartment may be useful for predicting its physiological mechanical behavior to inform the study of its mechanobiology.