The significance of variation in cortical bone elastic modulus within sub-regions.

Sub-regions labelled “Part 1” are the anterior portion from the midline of the part; sub-regions labelled “Part 2” are from the posterior portion. Significance difference within a region was determined through an aANOVA (p bKruskal-Wallis test. A cTukey’s post hoc or dDunn’s post hoc test determined the significant difference between slices within a region. 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).