Objectives

i) To develop a procedure to investigate micro-scale damages by synchrotron;

ii) to define a suitable protocol for synchrotron testing, including time-intervals evaluation and different samples conditions;

iii) to perform tests inside the synchrotron to obtain the images of the evolution of micro-damages;

iv) to automatically detect cracks and micro-damages from synchrotron images by topological and geometrical approach.

Topic in Brief

The tests performed at synchrotron are complex and it is necessary to define a protocol to designate the selection of bone samples, the applied loads, the time interval, the parameters of synchrotron. The huge amount of data obtained by synchrotron scansions require the use of approaches able to automatically detect cracks and micro morphologies. 

Enrolment &

Planned Secondments

Enrolment: ELETTRA

Secondments:

1) Prof. O. Ersen, CNRS: comparison of different experimental techniques to determine the microstructure of bones;

2) Prof. P. Dlotko, IMPAN: to develop a new approach base on topology to automatically detect cracks

Expected Results

i) an updated Ethic Agreement with the criteria of inclusion and exclusion to select the patients. ii) testing protocol at synchrotron, valid for different bone sample characterization; iii) development of an approach to automatically detect cracks.