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Development and Assessment of a Microcomputed Tomography Compatible Five Degrees-of-Freedom Knee Joint Motion Simulator
Authors
Alexandra M. Blokker
Timothy A. Burkhart
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Nathan J. Curiale
Alan M. Getgood
David W. Holdsworth
Justin G. Laing
Hristo N. Nikolov
Publication date
1 October 2019
Publisher
Scholarship@Western
Abstract
© 2019 by ASME. Currently available knee joint kinematic tracking systems fail to nondestructively capture the subtle variation in joint and soft tissue kinematics that occur in native, injured, and reconstructed joint states. Microcomputed tomography (CT) imaging has the potential as a noninvasive, high-resolution kinematic tracking system, but no dynamic simulators exist to take advantage of this. The purpose of this work was to develop and assess a novel micro-CT compatible knee joint simulator to quantify the knee joint\u27s kinematic and kinetic response to clinically (e.g., pivot shift test) and functionally (e.g., gait) relevant loading. The simulator applies closed-loop, load control over four degrees-of-freedom (DOF) (internal/external rotation, varus/valgus rotation, anterior/posterior translation, and compression/distraction), and static control over a fifth degree-of-freedom (flexion/extension). Simulator accuracy (e.g., load error) and repeatability (e.g., coefficient of variation) were assessed with a cylindrical rubber tubing structure and a human cadaveric knee joint by applying clinically and functionally relevant loads along all active axes. Micro-CT images acquired of the joint at a loaded state were then used to calculate joint kinematics. The simulator loaded both the rubber tubing and the cadaveric specimen to within 0.1% of the load target, with an intertrial coefficient of variation below 0.1% for all clinically relevant loading protocols. The resultant kinematics calculated from the acquired images agreed with previously published values, and produced errors of 1.66 mm, 0.90 mm, 4.41 deg, and 1.60 deg with respect to anterior translation, compression, internal rotation, and valgus rotation, respectively. All images were free of artifacts and showed knee joint displacements in response to clinically and functionally loading with isotropic CT image voxel spacing of 0.15 mm. The results of this study demonstrate that the joint-motion simulator is capable of applying accurate, clinically and functionally relevant loads to cadaveric knee joints, concurrent with micro-CT imaging. Nondestructive tracking of bony landmarks allows for the precise calculation of joint kinematics with less error than traditional optical tracking systems
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