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Figure 5
A plot of the fibrillar radii for breast tissue versus age. It also includes a distribution of such radii for skin, as obtained from the first-order Bessel function of the equatorial fibre diffraction results from 192 skin samples ranging from foetal to persons over the age of 80. This plot shows that the values obtained for the breast tissue is markedly less than that of skin, even though the breast is virtually a skin appendage. The results indicate that there is no statistical variation between the values obtained for normal and pathological samples from the breast as the variations between the samples of any group are less than the differences observed between the individual samples of that group that were taken from the same breast. The variation with age is also far less than the standard deviations obtained for the set.

Journal logoJOURNAL OF
SYNCHROTRON
RADIATION
ISSN: 1600-5775
Volume 9| Part 2| February 2002| Pages 71-76
doi:10.1107/S0909049502001504
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