The significance of variation in trabecular bone elastic modulus within a region.

Statistical significance within a region was determined through either an aKruskal-Wallis (p bMann-Whitney U (p cANOVA (p dTukey’s post hoc test determined the significant difference between slices within a region. Any region with less than 2 slices, or any slice with less than 2 indents, was eliminated from the analysis. The direction in which a region was analysed is defined as: anteroposterior (AP), mediolateral (ML) and ventrodorsal (VD).