skelThickness: Skeleton thickness

In AlessioVeneziano/IndianaBones: Analysis of bone 3D morphology

Skeleton thickness

Description

Extracts branch thickness from the topological skeleton. The thickness is recorded at each point of the branch.

Usage

skelThickness(skel)

Arguments

skel	topological skeleton, output of readAmiraSkeleton

Value

A vector of branch thickness calculated at each coordinate making up the branch.

Author(s)

Alessio Veneziano

References

Veneziano A, Cazenave M, Alfieri F, Panetta D, Marchi D. 2021. Novel strategies for the characterization of cancellous bone morphology: Virtual isolation and analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Examples

#Extract thickness information from the topological skeleton
data(exampleSkeleton)
dens<-skelThickness(exampleSkeleton)

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