Trabecular bone does not have a fractal structure on light microscopic examination
- 1 July 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Pathology
- Vol. 170 (3) , 311-313
- https://doi.org/10.1002/path.1711700315
Abstract
The fractal dimension of the boundary of trabecular bone in 62 biopsies was measured on histological sections using a box-counting method implemented on a microcomputer image analysis system. The calculated fractal dimension had a mean value of 0.99 with a normal distribution. Since this value is not greater than the topological dimension (1), trabecular bone, when examined by light microscopy, does not have a fractal structure. Conventional Euclidean dimensions will continue to be the most useful measurements in bone histomorphometry.Keywords
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