Objectives: Osteocytes characteristics assessment is important to understand bone pathology since osteocytes play a major role in bone metabolism as mechanosensors, key regulators of osteoblast and osteoclast activity and of the mineral homeostasis. Therefore we propose to analyze quantitative backscattered electron images of bone samples and to quantify sectioned osteocyte lacunae number, size and shape as indirect 2D-characteristics of the osteocytes.
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