X-ray microtomography images of trabecular bone from the femoral head and condyle of 18 avian, 72 mammalian and one crocodilian species.

This is the complete set of X-ray microtomography images used for inter-species trabecular scaling analysis in Doube et al. (2011).<br><br>Images were produced by scanning whole femoral heads and condyles, or 1 cm cubes cut from femoral heads and condyles, on an X-tek HMX 225 (Tring, UK), with a maximum pixel spacing of 15 µm. MD and JRH collected the specimens; MD cut the cubes; MMK did the imaging with assistance from Richie Abel of NHM London. Full details are included in the paper.<br><br>Images are spatially-calibrated 16-bit tiff stacks that will open readily in ImageJ. They have been compressed with bzip2, so will require decompression prior to loading in image processing software.<br><br>If you use these data, please cite both this dataset (as required by the CC BY licence) and Doube et al. (2011):<br><br>Doube M, Kłosowski MM, Wiktorowicz-Conroy AM, Hutchinson JR, Shefelbine SJ. 2011 Trabecular bone scales allometrically in mammals and birds. Proc. R. Soc. B 278, 3067–3073. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0069)<br><br>Between the original study and archiving this set, a small number of images were lost. We have recreated the inner cubes by cropping from the original DICOM data following the study protocol, for:<br><br>IC deer1 Cervus elaphus red deer, head, condyle<br>UMZC 429p Geococcyx californianus roadrunner head, condyle<br>UMZC h15052 Tragulus ravus lesser mouse deer, head, condyle<br>RVC kent_cheetah Acinonyx jubatus cheetah, head, condyle<br>RVC Przewalski's horse, Equus caballus przewalskii head, condyle<br><br>File naming follows a convention of:<br>Institution_accessionID_Genus_species_headORcondyle.tif.bz2