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Molecular structure at the bone-implant interface: a vibrational spectroscopic characterization
M A Walters1, N C Blumenthal, Y Leung
1Department of Chemistry, New York University, NY 10003.
Calcified Tissue International
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
Test implant plates surgically retrieved from distal femurs of dogs were studied by Raman spectroscopy in order to characterize the bone-implant interface. The implant surface consisted of phosphate mineral, plasma sprayed on a titanium substrate. On the basis of its spectroscopic signature, the phosphate mineral of bone and the implant surface formed a mixed phase in the interface.