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Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

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From: Significant race and gender differences in anterior cruciate ligament tibial footprint location: a 3D-based analysis

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a 3D MRI clearly showing the ACL in three orientations. The ACL tibial footprint location is marked with an orange star. b Three-dimensional surface models of the right tibia and the tibial footprint area were reconstructed. The anatomical coordinate system of the tibia (tACS) was also created. The origin is shown with a black dot, and the medial/lateral axis connecting the centers of the best-fitted ellipses on the articular surfaces of the medial and lateral tibial plateaus is shown with a blue line. The anterior/posterior axis is shown with a red arrow. Within the best-fitted plane, a bounding box was defined by the depth and width of the tibial plateau. The origin of the tACS was then moved to the most anterior and medial point of the bounding box

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