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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2008 Feb 20;42(6):1014–1020. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2008.02.001

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Three cylindrical trabeculae (150 microns in diameter) are shown with remodeling cavities wrapped around them circumferentially. The remodeling cavities in each image occupy the same volume (i.e. the same amount of bone turnover is depicted) but the number, surface size and depth of the cavities differs within the range observed histologically. The bending moment and critical load for Euler buckling (calculated within the tapered region only) is presented relative to that in the first image and is shown to vary by as much as an order of magnitude among the three possibilities.