Kihara T, Unno M, Kitada C, Kubo H, Nagata R
Appl Opt. 1987 Feb 15;26(4):643-9. doi: 10.1364/AO.26.000643.
The stress distribution in a model of the human ankle joint was measured nondestructively by using scattered-light polarizer photoelasticity [Kihara et al., Appl. Opt. 24, 3363 (1985)]. The present paper describes experimental results for 3-D stress distributions for front and side views of three solid models of the human ankle joint under static loading, which have different dorsiflexions; they are measured nondestructively using this method. The three ankle joint models correspond to the 10 degrees dorsiflexion, the neutral, and the 10 degrees plantar flexion positions, respectively.
