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Science 20 July 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4096, pp. 271 - 272
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4096.271
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Mechanical Resonance Spectra in Human Cancellous Bone

J. W. Pugh 1, R. M. Rose 2, I. L. Paul 3, and E. L. Radin 4

1 Biomechanics Laboratory, Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York 10035
2 Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Department of Orthopedics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

The dynamic mechanical response of fresh human cancellous bone at low audio frequencies contains two resonance spectra. The spectral frequencies in each series have the ratios 1:4:9:16 ... n2. The frequencies are in quantitative agreement with the concept of momentum wave modes of calcium and phosphorus atoms in the lamellae, with no variable parameters.


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