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The study aimed to quantify system error, minimum detectable change, and agreement with a photographic ground truth measurement. An\n                    <jats:italic>ex vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    model was used in which controlled bone loss increments were created and measured using both manual and automated HFUS methods. Measurements were compared to calibrated photographic measurements as the reference standard. System error was calculated using repeated baseline measurements, and detection capability was assessed using sensitivity analysis across incremental bone loss values. Agreement between methods was evaluated using Bland\u2013Altman analysis and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). The system error ranged from 77 \u00b5m for automated image-registration measurements to 113 \u00b5m for manual measurements. The minimum detectable bone loss increment was experimentally determined to be approximately 138 \u00b5m. 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