Three-Dimensional Visualization System of Trabecular Structure

abstract

`a bedridden old person' has recently attracted much attention. 
A bone fracture, which is the cause of `a bedridden old person', 
is due to an osteoporosis. 

Generally speaking, a bone mass decreases as a man gets older.
So, when a man got old, a bone strength of the whole body would
be weak. On the other hand, when a man suffers from an osteoporosis, 
his bone mass will decrease more than that of the healthy same
generation. So an osteoporosis causes a compression fracture
more easily. 

At the present time, the diagnosis of an osteoporosis generally 
examines a bone mass or checks a simple X-ray image which  
is the backward image of the whole bone. But using 
these ways, three-dimensional microscopic bone structure 
is not precisely estimated. In this reason, We constructed  
the inner microscopic bone structure with a three-dimensional 
image and a model of the bone with laser-lithography. 
Moreover, we developed the system which was able to evaluate
the bone structure quantitatively.  

        

items

1. Three-Dimensional Visualization
2. Laser-lithography
3. Quantitative Evaluation

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