Karali, Aikaterina ORCID: 0000-0003-4745-7123, Dall’Ara, Enrico ORCID: 0000-0003-1471-5077, Zekonyte, Jurgita, Kao, Alexander P., Blunn, Gordon and Tozzi, Gianluca (2022) Effect of radiation-induced damage of trabecular bone tissue evaluated using indentation and digital volume correlation. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 138:105636. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1751-6161 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2022.105636)

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Abstract

Exposure to X-ray radiation for an extended amount of time can cause damage to the bone tissue and therefore affect its mechanical properties. Specifically, high-resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT), in both synchrotron and lab-based systems, has been employed extensively for evaluating bone micro-to-nano architecture. However, to date, it is still unclear how long exposures to X-ray radiation affect the mechanical properties of trabecular bone, particularly in relation to lab-XCT systems. Indentation has been widely used to identify local mechanical properties such as hardness and elastic modulus of bone and other biological tissues. The purpose of this study is therefore, to use indentation and XCT-based investigative tools such as digital volume correlation (DVC) to assess the microdamage induced by long exposure of trabecular bone tissue to X-ray radiation and how this affects its local mechanical properties. Trabecular bone specimens were indented before and after X-ray exposures of 33 and 66 h, where variation of elastic modulus was evaluated at every stage. The resulting elastic modulus was decreased, and micro-cracks appeared in the specimens after the first long X-ray exposure and crack formation increased after the second exposure. High strain concentration around the damaged tissue exceeding 1% was also observed from DVC analysis. The outcomes of this study show the importance of designing appropriate XCT-based experiments in lab systems to avoid degradation of the bone tissue mechanical properties due to radiation and these results will help to inform future studies that require long X-ray exposure for in situ experiments or generation of reliable subject-specific computational models.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	indentation; digital volume correlation (DVC); tissue irradiation; X-ray computed tomography (XCT); trabecular bone
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) T Technology > T Technology (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
Last Modified:	16 May 2023 09:58
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/42584

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