. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 25.

Published in final edited form as: J Bone Miner Metab. 2010 Jan 22;28(4):433–445. doi: 10.1007/s00774-009-0146-7

Table 1.

Mineral maturity and mineral crystallinity index measured in iliac bone samples from human adult controls and from patients with skeletal fluorosis.

	Mineral maturity (Area ratio 1030/1110 cm⁻¹) Mean (SD)	Mineral crystallinity index (inversely proportional to FWHM 604 cm⁻¹) Mean (SD)

Control bone (n: 7)
Total new bone	1.643 (0.265)	25.078 (0.923)
Total old bone	1.926^a (0.274)	24.536^b (0.641)
Cortical new bone ^#	1.738 (0.280)	25.166 (0.693)
Cancellous new bone ^#	1.549 (0.230)	24.990 (0.994)
Cortical old bone ^#	2.046 (0.271)	24.636 (0.693)
Cancellous old bone ^#	1.806^c (0.236)	24.436 (0.994)

Fluorotic bone (n: 2)^§
Cortical new bone	1.293 (0.056)	20.377 (1.711)
Cancellous new bone	1.185 (0.078)	20.170 (0.670)
Cortical old bone	1.534 (0.187)	19.062 (1.302)
Cancellous old bone	1.422 (0.047)	19.131 (0.868)

Human bone

Mean of 5–10 measurements per sample in each compartment.

Friedman Anova, p: 0.0014–0.0056

Wilcoxon’s T-test: Comparison of new bone versus old bone,

: p=0.001;

: p <0.006

Wilcoxon’s T-test: Comparison of cortical new versus cancellous new bone: NS

Wilcoxon’s T-test: Comparison of cortical old versus cancellous old bone,

: p<0.03

Fluorotic bone

^§

For each sample, mean of 5–10 measurements per sample in each compartment.

FWHM: Full Width at Half Maximum; NS: not significant; SD: standard deviation