TABLE 1.

Minimum (Min), maximum (Max), median, interquartile range, mean, and standard deviation (SD) values for cortical porosity, number of cortical pores, and mean cortical pore area

	Tibia						Radius
	Min	Max	Median	Interquartile range	Mean	SD	Min	Max	Median	Interquartile range	Mean	SD
Cortical porosity (%)	2.1	9.2	3.9	3.1–4.9	4.4	1.6	0.4	5.0	1.5	1.1–2.1	1.6	0.8
Number of pores	2805	13272	7825	5909–9841	8027	2567	397	4110	1517	1058–1884	1615	783
Mean cortical pore area (mm2)	0.039	0.119	0.053	0.048–0.066	0.059	0.016	0.032	0.08	0.046	0.042–0.052	0.046	0.008
Cortical porosity with marrow (%)	1.6	27.0	8.5	5.3–13.5	10.0	6.3	4.9	41.8	17.0	12.9–24.8	19.1	8.9
Number of pores with marrow	152	2145	631	412–1069	765	494	122	699	258	177–328	266	108
Mean cortical pore area with marrow (mm2)	0.057	0.314	0.128	0.108–0.176	0.144	0.053	0.027	0.238	0.075	0.059–0.086	0.075	0.03

A Shapiro–Wilk W test for normality showed that only the number of cortical pores for the tibia had a normal distribution