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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2008 Sep 6;2(3):255–263. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2008.08.005

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic diagram showing cortical bone specimen preparation from the diaphysis of a whole human femur. (a) The femoral diaphysis was sectioned into 5% length segments from 15 to 85% of the total femur length. (b) Each segment of the diaphysis was subsequently sectioned into parallelepiped specimens (nominally 5 × 5 × 5 mm) from each anatomic quadrant (A = anterior, M = medial, P = posterior and L = lateral) with an orientation defined by the axes of an anatomically based orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system (1 = radial, 2 = circumferential, 3 = longitudinal).