BoneJ Moment of Inertia Unit Conversion

Usage & Issues
#1

I have used the moment of inertia function in BoneJ to calculates the second moments of area for a set of thresholded cortical bone slices. I am most interested in the second moment of area values around the longest and shortest principal axes (I_1, I_3). The units of these parameters are given in kg*m^2, but I would like to convert them to mm^4. I made a calibration image consisting of a white rectangle of dimension 300 x 100 on a black background, with a line width of 1 pixel. I used BoneJ to calculate the moments around the axes and was hoping to use the calibration factor of 1.8 g/cm^3 and work backwards to convert the results to paper calculations of a rectangle with the same dimensions. Unfortunately I have not been successful at the conversion after many attempts.

My paper calculations are using the formula for a hollow rectangular section listed here (https://skyciv.com/tutorials/area-moment-of-inertia-equations/). BoneJ gave results of 19200.48 kgm^2 for I_1 and 3000.3 kgm^2 around I_3.

#2

You have confused second moment of area (2D, linear measure4) with moment of inertia (3D, mass × linear measure2).

You should use Slice Geometry to get second moment of area (I).

#3

Almost there. I just realised that I “moments of inertia” is different to “second moment of inertia”, which is found under “slice geometry”. When I choose that I get this error: “Allow usage data collection?”, which I can’t get passed by clicking . I click on anything and everything and nothing happens. I have to go to “OK” or “cancel”. It simply freezes everything. I’ve updated ImageJ too.

#4

Solved here: