A study of how healthy and cancerous bone material properties of the pelvic bones differ based on bone material properties extracted from patient-specific ct scans

This study investigates how material properties of the pelvic bone are impacted by the presence of a cancerous tumor. Orthopaedic Oncologists are often faced with the challenging decision of knowing how much surrounding bone should be resected when extracting a tumor. Conservative estimations of how much anatomy to remove results in large portions of patients’ anatomy being resected, and often time limits the patient’s walking function. By using patients’ CT imaging data to calculate the material properties (Elastic Modulus) of the pelvic bone, this study investigates how bone material properties are affected by the presence of a cancerous tumor.