Early Detection of Tibial Cartilage Degradation and Cancellous Bone Loss in an Ovariectomized Rat Model

Figure 1

Schematic of the areas scanned by ultrasound biomicroscopy (two blue dotted squares 0.3 mm × 0.3 mm on the medial and lateral tibial plateaus) and micro-CT (two blue dotted lines presenting the volume of interest of the tibial metaphysis, approximately 0.1 mm in thickness).