Table 1.

The Bland–Altman analyses of the cartilage extracellular matrix orientation acquired with polarized light microscopy and structure tensor analysis (VOI: 150 µm × 5 µm) of the lateral and medial femoral condyle cartilage from the healthy rabbit knee joints.

Lateral Femoral Condyle
Difference (CT-PLM)
Radius	Mean	Median	STD	2.50%	97.50%	Range
3	− 24.05	− 24.92	6.01	− 33.36	− 5.63	27.73
6	− 12.77	− 11.56	4.42	− 23.72	− 5.34	18.37
9	− 8.36	− 7.76	3.49	− 15.87	− 2.54	13.34
12	− 6.31	− 5.47	3.38	− 15.11	− 1.57	13.54
15	− 5.49	− 4.67	3.94	− 16.79	− 1.06	15.74

Medial femoral condyle
Difference (CT-PLM)
Radius	Mean	Median	STD	2.50%	97.50%	Range
3	− 24.06	− 25.61	5.99	− 29.23	0.34	29.58
6	− 11.51	− 11.77	3.18	− 15.94	− 3.20	12.74
9	− 6.08	− 6.29	2.98	− 9.64	− 1.02	8.62
12	− 3.63	− 3.56	3.25	− 11.85	1.02	12.87
15	− 2.51	− 2.21	3.57	− 14.43	1.36	15.80

CT computed tomography, PLM polarized light microscopy, STD standard deviation, 2.50% Value of the cumulative percentile at 2.50%,97.50% Value of the cumulative percentile at 97.50%, Range 2.5% reduced from 97.5%