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Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2008 Apr 2;16(10):1150–1159. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.02.018

Table 4.

Spearman’s rank correlations between articular cartilage and trabecular structure parameters within the same compartment.

	LATERAL FEMORAL CONDYLE				MEDIAL FEMORAL CONDYLE				FEMUR

	BV/TV	Tb.N	Tb.Sp	Tb.Th	BV/TV	Tb.N	Tb.Sp	Tb.Th	BV/TV	Tb.N	Tb.Sp	Tb.Th
T1ρ (n=16)	−0.31^*	−0.24^*	0.33^*	−0.28^*	−0.29^*	−0.34^*	0.36^*	NS	−0.26^*	−0.31^*	0.39^*	NS
T2 (n=11)	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	0.35^*
Thickness	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	0.33^*	NS	NS	0.46^**
Normalized volume	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	0.52^**	−0.41^**	NS	0.30^*	0.30^*	−0.35^*	NS

	LATERAL TIBIA				MEDIAL TIBIA				TIBIA

	BV/TV	Tb.N	Tb.Sp	Tb.Th	BV/TV	Tb.N	Tb.Sp	Tb.Th	BV/TV	Tb.N	Tb.Sp	Tb.Th

T1ρ (n=16)	−0.60^**	−0.61^**	0.64^**	−0.46^**	NS	NS	NS	NS	−0.44^**	−0.30^*	0.47^**	−0.43^**
T2 (n=11)	−0.59^**	−0.70^***	0.71^***	−0.40^**	NS	NS	NS	NS	−0.41^**	−0.57^**	0.56^**	NS
Thickness	0.47^**	0.32^*	−0.35^*	0.52^**	0.32	NS	NS	0.42^**	0.34^*	NS	NS	0.32^*
Normalized volume	0.68^***	0.51^**	−0.50^**	0.66^***	NS	NS	NS	NS	0.44^**	0.45^**	−0.41^**	0.27^*

^*

P<0.05

^**

P<0.01

^***

P<0.001

NS = Not Significant

NOTE: All trabecular bone parameters are “apparent” parameters – app. BV/TV, app. Tb.N, app. Tb.S, app. Tb.Th.