A 3 mm thick para-sagittal slice of L2 vertebra from an 76 year old female embedded in PMMA then micro-milled block surfaces carbon coated for quantitative 20kV BSE SEM.Later polished to remove coatin
vBMD = volumetric bone mineral density; BV/TV = bone volume per total volume; TbN = trabecular number; TbTh = trabecular thickness; TbSp = trabecular separation.
