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. 2017 Mar 7;7:43094. doi: 10.1038/srep43094

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The vertical view was then further divided into anterior, central, and posterior areas. Five regions of interest were randomly selected to determine the average canal diameter, volume fraction and connectivity, and endplate porosity and thickness in each of these regions. The IVD thickness distribution was also calculated for these three regions. The pseudo-color bar in the lower-right corner indicates the diameter ranges of the canals in the endplate or the IVD thickness distribution.