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Compact bone

Known as: compact substance of bone, Substantia compacta, Compact Bone Tissue 
A type of osseous tissue which makes up the outer layer of bone. It is dense, rigid, strong, and forms concentric lamellar OSTEONS.
National Institutes of Health

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Blood supply aspectsLamellar boneMicrobiologicalProcess of secretion

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Bone and BonesSkeletal bone

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Magnetic Resonance–Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MR Hybrid Imaging Using Continuous Valued Attenuation Maps
ObjectivesAttenuation correction of positron emission tomographic (PET) data is critical in providing accurate and quantitative… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Osteoporosis after spinal cord injury
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Relationship Between Bone Morphology and Bone Quality in Male Tibias: Implications for Stress Fracture Risk
Biomechanical properties were assessed from the tibias of 17 adult males 17‐46 years of age. Tissue‐level mechanical properties… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Mechanical and histomorphometric evaluations of titanium implants with different surface treatments inserted in sheep cortical bone.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Effects of anisotropy on elastic moduli measured by nanoindentation in human tibial cortical bone.
Many biological materials are known to be anisotropic. In particular, microstructural components of biological materials may grow… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Converting absorbed dose to medium to absorbed dose to water for Monte Carlo based photon beam dose calculations
Current clinical experience in radiation therapy is based upon dose computations that report the absorbed dose to water, even… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Bone mineralization and bone mineral metabolism in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
OBJECTIVE To identify mechanisms of the osteopenia associated with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) by determining parameters… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Evaluation of the serum stability and in vivo biodistribution of CHX-DTPA and other ligands for yttrium labeling of monoclonal antibodies.
UNLABELLED Serum stability and in vivo biodistribution of both A and B isomers of the 2-(p-isothiocyanatobenzyl) (p-SCN-Bz… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Bone mineral content in early-postmenopausal and postmenopausal osteoporotic women: comparison of measurement methods.
To investigate associations among methods for noninvasive measurement of skeletal bone mass, we studied 40 healthy early… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Radiographically determined widths of bone muscle and fat in the upper arm and calf from age 3-18 years.
In the Harpenden Growth Study arm and calf radiographs were taken on 280 boys and 225 girls twice a year over varying periods… 
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