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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater. 2010 Jul;94(1):118–126. doi: 10.1002/jbm.b.31631

Table 4.

Correlations between micro-CT and functional/mathematical modulus

Parameters Osteotomy-Alone (OA, n=14) Osteotomy+Osseous Defect (OS, n=12)
FBAM FCAM FBAM FCAM
Functional/mathematical modulus
  R square 0.8925 0.2780 0.5856 0.6762
  P value N.S. <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
R square to functional apparent modulus *
  Bone-implant contact (BIC) 0.2755 0.2964 0.4243 0.7589
  Bone volume fractions (BVF) 0.0869 0.0352 0.0057 0.4857
  Tissue mineral density (TMD) 0.1203 0.0566 0.1113 0.4651
  Bone mineral density (BMD) 0.8544 0.7364 0.3298 0.3708
R square to mathematical modulus *
  Bone-implant contact (BIC) 0.0604 0.4140 0.1135 0.6204
  Bone volume fractions (BVF) 0.1546 0.7168 0.0132 0.4062
  Tissue mineral density (TMD) 0.3476 0.6458 0.1231 0.4081
  Bone mineral density (BMD) 0.5003 0.1641 0.4937 0.0080
*

All the p value between micro-CT and functional/mathematical modulus were < 0.05

Abbreviations: FBAM: functional bone apparent modulus; FCAM: functional composite tissue apparent modulus