About the Authors

Ya-Bo Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya-Bo Yan, Wei Qi

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Wei Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya-Bo Yan, Wei Qi

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, Surgery Department of 520th Hospital of PLA, Mian yang, China

Zi-Xiang Wu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Tian-Xia Qiu

Affiliation School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Ee-Chon Teo

Affiliation School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Wei Lei

leiwei@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YBY WQ. Performed the experiments: YBY WQ WL. Analyzed the data: YBY ZXW WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TXQ ECT. Wrote the paper: YBY WQ.