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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2014 Nov 28;47(15):3605–3612. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.10.011

Table 3.

Correlations between microarchitecture and microdamage generated under tension are shown. The upper triangle shows the value of r while the lower triangle displays the 95% confidence interval of r.

DV/BV (%) Number of
microdamage
sites (#)
Number of
Microdamage
sites per bone
volume (#/mm3)
Mean damage
volume per
microdamage
site (μm3)
Median damage
volume per
microdamage
site (μm3)
Bone volume
fraction (%)
Bone surface
(mm2)
Trabecular
thickness (μm)
Trabecular
separation (mm)
Trabecular
number (1/mm)
Structure model
index (-)
DV/BV (%) 1.00 −0.40 −0.43 0.92* 0.61 0.04 0.28 −0.13 −0.69* 0.60 0.18
Number of microdamage sites (#) (−0.84, 0.36) 1.00 0.87* −0.54 −0.44 0.71* 0.64 0.13 −0.30 0.35 −0.75*
Number of microdamage sites per bone volume (#/mm3) (−0.85, 0.33) (0.48, 0.97) 1.00 −0.54 −0.40 0.31 0.30 0.05 −0.07 0.11 −0.49
Mean damage volume per microdamage site (μm3) (0.64, 0.98) (−0.89, 0.19) (−0.92, 0.00) 1.00 0.60 0.08 0.20 −0.03 −0.53 0.42 0.16
Median damage volume per microdamage site (μm3) (−0.08, 0.91) (−0.86, 0.31) (−0.84, 0.35) (−0.10, 0.90) 1.00 −0.19 0.12 −0.56 −0.18 0.11 0.16
Bone volume fraction (%) (−0.64, 0.68) (0.08, 0.93) (−0.45, 0.81) (−0.62, 0.71) (−0.76, 0.54) 1.00 0.89* 0.26 −0.60 0.58 −0.83*
Bone surface (mm2) (−0.47, 0.80) (−0.04, 0.92) (−0.46, 0.80) (−0.54, 0.76) (−0.59, 0.73) (0.54, 0.98) 1.00 −0.09 −0.79* 0.79* −0.75*
Trabecular thickness (μm) (−0.73, 0.59) (−0.58, 0.73) (−0.64, 0.69) (−0.68, 0.65) (−0.89, 0.17) (−0.49, 0.79) (−0.71, 0.61) 1.00 −0.06 0.03 0.11
Trabecular separation (mm) (−0.93, −0.04) (−0.8, 0.46) (−0.70, 0.62) (−0.88, 0.21) (−0.75, .55) (−0.90, 0.11) (−0.95, −0.27) (−0.69, 0.63) 1.00 −0.98* 0.28
Trabecular number (1/mm) (−0.11, 0.90) (−0.41, 0.82) (−0.60, 0.72) (−0.34, 0.85) (−0.60, 0.72) (−0.14, 0.90) (0.26, 0.95) (−0.65, 0.68) (−1.00, −0.91) 1.00 −0.26
Structure model index (-) (−0.55, 0.75) (−0.94, −0.17) (−0.87, 0.25) (−0.56, 0.75) (−0.57, 0.74) (−0.96, −0.38) (−0.94, −0.17) (−0.60, 0.72) (−0.47, 0.80) (−0.79, 0.49) 1.00