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Table 3 Calculated Young's moduli from individual displacement fields.

From: Bulk elastic properties of chicken embryos during somitogenesis

Subregion

Young's modulus (kPa)

midline

2.9 ± 2.4

intermediate

1.2 ± 0.9

area pellucida

2.6 ± 2.0

area opaca

11.6 ± 6.7

  1. We rejected the ten experimental displacement fields where the model had residual errors in the calculated displacement greater than 0.5 μm, so N = 39.
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