. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2008 Aug 8;43(6):1067–1074. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2008.07.248

TABLE 3.

BSE analysis of distal femur cortical bone and thoracic vertebral body trabecular bone.

BSE analysis of distal femur cortical bone

	Fluoride Treatment (ppm)	A/J	SWR/J	129P3/J

Peak grey level	0	212 ± 13	194 ± 14	190 ± 15
	25	200 ± 22	191 ± 12	215 ± 13
	50	201 ± 15	179 ± 19	210 ± 19
	100	216 ± 2	210 ± 12	212 ± 13

FWHM	0	44 ± 10	39 ± 9	44 ± 8
	25	36 ± 5	42 ± 7	39 ± 3
	50	38 ± 4	43 ± 10	43 ± 4
	100	46 ± 3	46 ± 4	45 ± 1

BSE analysis of vertebral body trabecular bone

Peak grey level	0	181 ± 15	171 ± 23	165 ± 11
	25	170 ± 20	179 ± 24	171 ± 33
	50	176 ± 20	180 ± 24	178 ± 8
	100	193 ± 14	206 ± 18	185 ± 16

FWHM	0	55 ± 8	65 ± 6	62 ± 11
	25	57 ± 9	61 ± 6	62 ± 11
	50	49 ± 7	51 ± 7 ^***	53 ± 8
	100	53 ± 7	51 ± 6 ^***	48 ± 1 ^*

Data are presented as means ± SD.

A p value < 0.001 is noted as***. A 0.001<p<0.05 is noted as ** and a 0.05<p< 0.1 is noted as *.

For vertebral body trabecular bone, the fluoride dose significantly affected the full width of the half maximum value (FWHM) in the SWR/J strain.