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High-definition Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Tissue Sections towards Improving Pathology
Published on: January 21, 2015
Characterization of silicone breast implant biopsies by Fourier transform infrared mapping
S R Ali1, F B Johnson, J L Luke
1Department of Environmental and Toxicologic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20306-6000, USA.
Cellular and Molecular Biology (Noisy-Le-Grand, France)
|April 29, 1998
Abstract:
Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectral mapping was used to study polymers in human tissue associated with silicone breast implants. Biomaterials such as polyesters, polyurethanes and silicone were identified by FT-IR spectroscopy, and their relative locations and distributions within tissue specimens were characterized by three-dimensional (3D) spectral maps.

