Congratulations to Sara Moshage on her recent publication! This paper is the culmination of several years of work spent investigating the CT and mechanical properties of juvenile equine bone. Having accurate relationships between CT density and elastic modulus allow us to build better finite element models of the bones, and in turn use these models to assess different early age exercise interventions. Because juvenile and adult bone tissue differ in their composition and structure, we hypothesized that juvenile equine bone would require a different density-modulus relationship than adult equine bone. In addition to strong support for our hypothesis, we also found that juvenile density-modulus relationships differ by anatomical location and loading direction. These results mean that the juvenile equine skeleton requires site-specific density-modulus relationships
Below is a high speed video of her cutting bone for this work.