Importance of the integrity of trabecular bone to the relationship between load and deformation of rat femora: an optical metrology study†‡
Abstract
Bone is a composite hierarchical structure composed of a cortical shell and inner trabecular tissue. One of the most basic questions in whole-bone function is the relative contributions of cortical and trabecular bone tissues to the loaded whole bone. In this study, the manner in which the cortical surfaces of an intact proximal rat femur deform under load is compared to the same femur after some of the trabecular bone in the distal femoral neck was removed. The surface displacements were measured by electronic speckle pattern
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