Volumetric texture synthesis of bone micro-structure as a base for scaffold design

Abstract

Bones consist of hierarchical biocomposite materials arranged in multi-scale structural geometry exhibiting complex behavior. This structure is vulnerable to various damaging factors that may cause its degradation, such as accidents, medical operations and diseases. Current technology cannot precisely reconstruct damaged bone tissue and can only roughly approximate such damaged structures. The aim of this research is to develop a method to identify the damaged regions and provide a best fitting scaffold to imitate the original structure, thus offering better rehabilitation.