Relationships among collagen fiber orientation, mineralization, mineral maturity, and crystallinity

Bone quality is a combination of the material and structural properties of bone. Reductions in bone quality parameters, such as the degree of collagen fiber orientation, mineralization, mineral maturity, and crystallinity, affect bone strength. However, the relationships among the bone quality parameters remain poorly understood. In this work, we investigated the relationships among collagen fiber orientation and other bone quality parameters in...