TECHNICAL PROGRESS - SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

All activities for Maribor partners are summarised, special contributions are marked bold:

1. Acquire high-quality static Magnetic Resonance (MR) images of normal and pathological knees.
2. Acquire lower quality pseudo-dynamic MR images of normal and patient knees while undergoing exercise under light load using a custom-designed exercise rig.
3. Segment the MR images to create labelled tissue structures. In practice, this segmentation might be achieved by registration to a template.
4. Validate the image segmentation results.
5. Use the high-quality segments to generate finite element meshes of each structure in the knee.
6. Utilise the meshes in the PAM-Suite? explicit finite element software environment.
7. Validate the behaviour / performance of the fine element meshes against the in-vivo imaging acquired using the exercise rig.
8. Evaluate the utility of the SimBio software tools for clinical scenarios involving the knee joint, such as the effect of meniscal tissue removal (partial meniscectomy) and the "virtual design" of meniscal implants.
9. Validate the SimBio environment as a whole.