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. 2021 May 19;109(4):434–444. doi: 10.1007/s00223-021-00852-1

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Fig. 2 — Quantitative analysis of the degree of preferential orientation of apatite c-axis along bone long axis. a Typical microbeam X-ray diffraction pattern obtained from thinned rat femur. Vertical direction in the image corresponds to femur long axis. b Variation in diffraction intensity of (002) and (310) plane of apatite as a function of azimuthal angle χ. c Distribution of the degree of preferential apatite c-axis orientation defined as the intensity ratio of (002) and (310) diffraction peak as a function of azimuthal angle χ. d Two-dimensional radar diagram of the apatite orientation. The radius represents the intensity ratio of (002)/(310)