About the Authors

Fabio Massimo Ulivieri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: UO Endocrinologia, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Affiliation UO Medicina Nucleare, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy

Luca Rinaudo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision

Affiliation TECHNOLOGIC Srl, Lungo Dora Voghera, Torino, Italy

Luca Petruccio Piodi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Milano, Italy

Carmelo Messina

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Carmelo.messina@unimi.it

Affiliations UO Radiologia Diagnostica e Interventistica, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano, Italy, Diagnostica per Immagini e Radioterapia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Luca Maria Sconfienza

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UO Radiologia Diagnostica e Interventistica, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano, Italy, Diagnostica per Immagini e Radioterapia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Francesco Sardanelli

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Diagnostica per Immagini e Radioterapia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, Radiologia e Diagnostica per Immagini, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Piazza Edmondo Malan, San Donato Milanese (MI), Italy

Giuseppe Guglielmi

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Viale Luigi Pinto, Foggia, Italy

Enzo Grossi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Villa Santa Maria Foundation, Tavernerio (CO), Italy

Competing Interests

All the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The engineer LR, former working in Academic University Politecnico of Turin and now employed at the commercial company "TECHNOLOGIC S.r.l", has extracted and tabulated the densitometric data and has applied the mathematical algorithms based on the finite element analysis to calculate the Bone Strain Index. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.