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Non-apatitic environments in bone mineral: FT-IR detection, biological properties and changes in several disease
1Laboratory for the Study of Skeletal Disorders, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Connective Tissue Research
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Resolution enhanced FT-IR spectroscopy shows that non-apatitic environments of phosphate and carbonate ions occur in bone mineral. The spectroscopic characteristics of these environments and their chemical and biological properties are reviewed. The potential effectiveness of FT-IR for the detailed study of bone mineral changes in bone disease is shown by analysis of several samples.