Emilia Bellina, Maria Elvira Laurino, Alice Perego, Alice Pezzinga, Linda Carpenedo, Davide Ninarello, Luigi La Barbera
The present paper describes a novel user-friendly fully-parametric thoraco-lumbar spine CAD model generator including the ribcage, based on 22 independent parameters (1 posterior vertebral body height per vertebra + 4 sagittal alignment parameters, namely pelvic incidence, sacral slope, L1-L5 lumbar lordosis, and T1-T12 thoracic kyphosis). Reliable third-order polynomial regression equations were implemented in Solidworks to analytically calculate 56 morphological dependent parameters and to automatically generate the spine CAD model based on primitive geometrical features...
January 20, 2024: Journal of Biomechanics