[DATA TITLE]: Subchondral bone cysts in the ankle: patient-specific finite element study data [CREATORS]: Harriet Talbott, Marlene Mengoni, 2022, University of Leeds [RELATED PUBLICATION]: Data associated with "The Relationship between Subchondral Bone Cysts and Cartilage Health in the Tibiotalar Joint: A Finite Element Analysis" by Talboot, Wilkins, Redmond, Brockett, Mengoni. Associated paper published in Clinical Biomechanics [DESCRIPTION]: The data comprise finite element input files for 5 ankles at different time points (total 18 specimen-specific models derived from clinical MRI) including cysts or considered intact. [ETHICAL APPROVAL]: The underlying imaging data has been collected part of a LASERHAEM clinical study led by Dr Wilkins (associated paper co-author, ethics MREC16-087). Using the anonymous images for this research has received local ethical approval (MEEC 18-022), including authorisation to share any derived data openly. [CITE AS]: Talbott H.G. and Mengoni M., 2022, [dataset] Subchondral bone cysts in the ankle: patient-specific finite element study data, University of Leeds data repository, doi: https://doi.org/10.5518/1207 [LICENSE]: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. [CONTENT AND SPECIMEN INFORMATION]: The data comprise finite element input files for 5 ankles at different time points (total 18 specimen-specific models derived from clinical MRI) including cysts or considered intact. Additional 6 models are used to assess the effect of cyst depth (offset sub-study, baseline geometry is ankle 1, timepoint 7, intact model) Specimen information (cyst volume measured on MRI) Ankle Timepoint Cyst volume (mm3) Cyst location 1 1 893.895 Tibia 1 2 583.118 Tibia 1 3 1889.07 Tibia 1 4 2404.31 Tibia 1 5 1765.79 Tibia 1 6 1444.09 Tibia 1 7 2493.35 Tibia 2 2 2068.17 Tibia 2 3 603.338 Tibia 3 1 109.936 Talus 3 2 3871.03 Tibia+Talus 3 3 4621.14 Tibia+Talus 3 4 5165.92 Tibia+Talus 4 3 63.5811 Talus 4 4 896.2 Talus 4 5 1635.37 Talus 4 6 2501.68 Tibia+Talus 4 7 2340.02 Tibia+Talus Input files are named as "ankle#_model#_cyst.inp" or "ankle#_model#_intact.inp"; the offset study input files are called "Cystoffset_#mm.inp" (cyst depth, in mm, by 0, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3). Results reported are cartilage contact pressures (mean and peak values, in MPa) for the talar and tibial cartilage surfaces.