Throughout life, the human skeleton is continuously renewed through a regeneration process aiming to repair damaged bones and adapt it to changes in physical loads. EU-funded scientists have introduced an approach to evaluate accurately the local bone deformations that could be used to validate computational models.
The human skeleton is a complex, hierarchical system in which changes manifest themselves spatially from the cell up to the body level and over time. This multi-scale nature of bone remodelling requires a modelling approach able to capture multiple processes taking place at different time and space scales.
Further information: Modelling bone remodelling