Morphologic characteristics of Korean elderly rib

Choi, Hyung-Yun; Kwak, Dai-Soon

Affiliations

¹Mechanical System Design Engineering Department, Hongik University, Seoul 121-791, Korea

²Catholic Institute for Applied Anatomy, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 137-701, Korea

Abstract and keywords

To acquire morphologic information of Korean elderly rib serves as a key element to build an anatomically detailed finite element human body model. The model can be used to assess the chest injury risk for a car crash accident. Seven flesh cadavers were procured to extract whole right side of the rib cage, i.e., twelve ribs. The complete geometric configuration was digitally reconstructed from micro CT images for each rib. Processing these three dimensional virtual rib models, cross sectional properties such as area, moment of inertia, aspect ratio of long and short ellipsoidal radii were gauged and statistically analyzed.

Keywords: car crash accident; elderly rib; morphology; digital human body model, micro CT; computerized tomography (CT)

History

Received: 2010-11-08

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