Does 3D orientation account for variation in osteon morphology assessed by 2D histology?

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We are grateful to the mortuary staff and the staff of the Donor Tissue Bank of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine for their assistance in the collection of this series of bone specimens, and we are particularly grateful to the next-of-kin of the donors for permission to remove bone for research purposes. We are also grateful for the detailed and constructive comments of the reviewers, which have substantively improved this manuscript. Support for this research was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada via a Discovery Grant to D.M.L.C. and a scholarship to C.H. D.M.L.C. is further supported by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Canada Research Chairs program.