A Bone Sample Containing a Bone Graft Substitute Analyzed by Correlating Density Information Obtained by X-ray Micro Tomography with Compositional Information Obtained by Raman Microscopy

Johann Charwat-Pessler, Maurizio Musso, Alexander Petutschnigg, Karl Entacher, Bernhard Plank, Erik Wernersson, Stefan Tangl, Peter Schuller-Götzburg

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Abstract

The ability of bone graft substitutes to promote new bone formation has been increasingly used in the medical field to repair skeletal defects or to replace missing bone in a broad range of applications in dentistry and orthopedics. A common way to assess such materials is via micro computed tomography (µ-CT), through the density information content provided by the absorption of X-rays. Information on the chemical composition of a material can be obtained via Raman spectroscopy. By investigating a bone sample from miniature pigs containing the bone graft substitute Bio Oss ® , we pursued the target of assessing to what extent the density information gained by µ-CT imaging matches the chemical information content provided by Raman spectroscopic imaging. Raman images and Raman correlation maps of the investigated sample were used in order to generate a Raman based segmented image by means of an agglomerative, hierarchical cluster analysis. The resulting segments, showing chemically related areas, were subsequently compared with the µ-CT image by means of a one-way ANOVA. We found out that to a certain extent typical gray-level values (and the related histograms) in the µ-CT image can be reliably related to specific segments within the image resulting from the cluster analysis.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3831-3853
Number of pages23
JournalMaterials Science
Volume8
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2015

Keywords

  • computed tomography
  • Raman spectroscopy
  • bone
  • Bio-Oss
  • cluster analysis
  • image segmentation
  • Cluster analysis
  • Bio-Oss®
  • Image segmentation
  • Bone
  • X-ray micro computed tomography

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