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From: Material properties of human vertebral trabecular bone under compression can be predicted based on quantitative computed tomography

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A Picture showing the fixation of bone cylinders within their original positions in the vertebral bodies with a small acrylic glass tube at the end plates. After axially aligned fixation of all vertebrae of one donor in the acrylic glass cylinder, it was filled with water and evacuated for standardized QCT scans. B Picture showing the BMD assessment in the QCT within the fracture zone (blue ROI) of a bone cylinder visualized in a 3D surface model of a vertebra

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

ISSN: 1471-2474

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