Unfortunately, most of the foundational papers in the field did exactly that, usually without explicitly stating. It was pretty much the standard of practice fo

Unfortunately, most of the foundational papers in the field did exactly that, usually without explicitly stating. It was pretty much the standard of practice for all bone analysis prior to ~2010 or so when microstructure analysis became a practical thing. Similar issues in other types of samples exist and it's still common today, it was just what came to my mind as the first example.