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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Fatigue. 2007 Jun;29(6):1024–1033. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2006.09.010

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Forms of in vivo microdamage in human T12 vertebral cancellous and human tibial diaphyseal cortical bone. Linear microcrack (MC) in cancellous (a) and cortical (b) bones. Diffuse damage(DD) in cancellous (c) and cortical (d) bone. Images (e) and (f) demonstrate the occurrence of diffuse submicroscopic cracks under laser confocal microscope in areas of diffuse damage in cancellous and cortical bone images shown in (c) and (d), respectively.