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. 2011 Jun 16;133(6):0610021–06100211. doi: 10.1115/1.4004231

Table 1.

Transversely isotropic elastic parameters for healthy and osteopenic cancellous bone (Eq. (9))


Tissue parameters

Elastic parameters
ϕ λi Et C11 C22 C55 C12 C23
Healthy 0.15 (1.0, 0.67, 0.67) 1.0 0.0642 0.0192 0.0112 0.0097 0.0074
Osteopenic 0.08 (1.0, 0.5, 0.5) 1.0 0.0502 0.0017 0.003 0.002 0.0013