Figure 1
Macro- and microstructure of femoral bovine bone. (a) A representation of femoral bovine bone at the macroscale, showing the directions of the long axes (radial, tangential and longitudinal) of the measured samples. (b) A µCT reconstruction of a sample with the long axis aligned to the radial direction of the femur, with an enlargement of a section shown in (c). (d) A light microscopy image showing the arrangement of fibrolamellar units at the microscale. The red dashed line outlines one such unit. |