The importance of murine cortical bone microstructure for microcrack initiation and propagation

Bone

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1186-1193

  Voide, R ^a   Schneider, P ^a   Stauber, M ^a   van Lenthe, G H ^a   Stampanoni, M ^a,b   Muller R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bone failure; Cortical bone microstructure; Image guided failure assessment; Microcracks; Synchrotron CT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE INJURY; BONE MASS; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAPHYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FRACTURE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCYTE; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FEMUR; HAVERSIAN SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 81355127662     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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