Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)
CHAPTER SIX – Morphological analysis the bone structures
Figure 20. A: Bone structure of the cortex of Béla Ill ’s femur as shown on segments created after decalcination. Picrosirius staining, 20x zoom. The staining molecules attaching to the collagen fibres greatly enhance their own birefringence, and the phenomenon can be seen very clearly in the darkfield of view created by the crossing polar 107
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