1. ABOUT THE DATASET -------------------- Title: Aged ovine lumbar spine mechanical testing and imaging data Creator(s): James Warren, Marlène Mengoni Organisation(s): University of Leeds Rights-holder(s): Copyright 2025 University of Leeds Publication Year: 2025 Description: Data associated with research paper: An experimental methodology to measure the effects of intervertebral interventions on the facet biomechanics in situ. Dataset comprised of compressive mechanical data, CT imaging data and motion tracking data of ovine tissue samples. Cite as: Warren, James P. and Mengoni, Marlène, (2025): An experimental methodology to measure the effects of intervertebral interventions on the facet biomechanics in situ. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1657. Related Publications: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2025.112617 Contact: Marlène Mengoni, M.Mengoni@leeds.ac.uk 2. TERMS OF USE --------------- Copyright 2025 University of Leeds, James Warren, Marlène Mengoni. This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.] 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION ---------------------------------- Title: Spinal facet joints: biomechanical evaluation for improved interventions Dates: May 2022 - Apr 2025 Funding organisation: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grant no.: EP/W015617/1 4. CONTENTS ----------- The data within this repository is divided into three folders (1 -3) which contain instron biomechanical testing, motion tracking and displacement and CT imagining data respectively for ovine lumbar and human thoracic spinal samples. 1_Instron The folder named 1_Instron contains seven subfolders named: Ov_Lum_N_1 to Ov_Lum_N_6 and G30-11-014, which contain raw instron data and processed data associated with Figure 3 in the manuscript 2_Motion tracking and displacement The folder named 2_Motion tracking and displacement contains seven subfolders named: Ov_Lum_N_1 to Ov_Lum_N_6 and G30-11-014, which contain raw instron data and processed data associated with Figure 3 in the manuscript 3_CT imagining The folder named 4_CT Imagining contains seven further sample folders named Ov_Lum_N1 to Ov_Lum_N6 and G30-11-014. 5. METHODS ---------- The methods used to generated the dataset in this repository are found in the manuscript mentioned in Section 1. The citation for this manuscript is Warren, Bomphrey and Mengoni, An experimental methodology to measure the effects of intervertebral interventions on the facet biomechanics in situ, 2024, Journal of Biomechanics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2025.112617.