Cell Biology of Bone - Merry J. Oursler

Fig. 3: This is a comparison of the architecture of trabecular bone in the spine. On the left is a scan of a normal spine trabecular structure and on the right is a scan of the spine of an osteoporotic individual. This comparison shows that normal trabecular bone is thicker, more abundant, and forms more connections throughout the structure than the trabecular bone of an osteoporotic individual.