Research Article

Histological Comparison in Rats between Carbonate Apatite Fabricated from Gypsum and Sintered Hydroxyapatite on Bone Remodeling

Figure 3

FT-IR spectra of (a) set gypsum, (b) gypsum after treatment in 1 mol/L Na3PO4 solution at 100°C for 24 h, and (c) sintered hydroxyapatite. The arrow indicates the additional absorption band assigned to a stretching vibration of of B-type carbonate apatite, in which the lattice site is substituted by CO3.