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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
Structural determinants of mechanical behavior of whole human
L3 vertebrae—an ex vivo μCT study
Z. Latała
Cracow University of Technology, Krakow, Poland
E. Czerwiński
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
Z. Tabor & R. Petryniak
Cracow University of Technology, Krakow, Poland
T. Konopka
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
ABSTRACT: In the present study 29 vertebral bodies were μCT scanned and then mechanically tested
in compression. Microtomographic images were automatically binarized and then morphological (cross-
section area, height) and histomorphometric parameters ...