As shown in figure : I want to measure the CT value of the boundary (the contact interface between the bone and the cylinder) of a certain section of the cylinder in the vertebral pedicle. What should I do?
I once tried to measure by measuring the sum of voxels of each point on the section circle, but this does not seem to reflect the relationship between the circumference and the CT value (I mean, if the SetResolution are equal when the 'vtk.vtkCylinderSource()` is created.)
It seems that the CT value obtained by "bone density measurement at the pedicle screw surface" is also based on the (vtkPolyData) points on the model. For example, a cross section circle (regular hexagon) has only 6 points. No matter how large the diameter is, are only 6 points taken?
The interface area between bone and screw is related to the fixation strength of screw, so I want to get the sum of all pixels (not density ) around the section circle. What should I do?
You can use Surface Toolbox uniform remesh feature to ensure that the points are representative for the entire screw surface.
You can compute the sum by multiplying the average value by the number of points. However, this will not be representative of the fixation strength. Multiplying by the surface area may be more meaningful. However, you cannot ignore the distribution of the bone density (very high density in one region cannot compensate for lack of density in another region), so probably you need a metric that evaluates the density along the length of the screw (as it is done in Pedicle Screw Planner extension).
: I want to measure the CT value of the boundary (the contact interface between the bone and the cylinder) of a certain section of the cylinder in the vertebral pedicle. What should I do?
这个测量骨密度的方法, 获得的CT值似乎也是根据模特上的点来, 比如一个截面圆(正6边形)只有6个点, 无论直径多大, 都只是取6个点是这样吗?