Pore throat size and connectivity determine bone and tissue ingrowth into porous implants: Three-dimensional micro-CT based structural analyses of porous bioactive titanium implants

Biomaterials

Volumn 27, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 5892-5900

  Otsuki, Bungo ^a   Takemoto, Mitsuru ^a   Fujibayashi, Shunsuke ^a   Neo, Masashi ^a   Kokubo, Tadashi ^b   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interconnection; Micro CT; Osseointegration; Porosity; Titanium

Indexed keywords

IN VIVO HISTOMORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; INTERCONNECTION; OSSEOINTEGRATION; PORE THROATS;

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GROWTH KINETICS; PORE SIZE; POROSITY; TISSUE; TITANIUM;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

TITANIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; BONE REGENERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMUR CONDYLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPLANT; MALE; MICRO FOCUS X RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE INTERACTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RABBITS; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33748301939     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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