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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res A. 2013 Jun 7;102(5):1305–1315. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.34807

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Implants and implantation method. A: An example of implant used in experiments; the insert shows a diagram of an implant cross-section with 3 thin titanium reinforcing wires. B: Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of small pore implant without nanotube addition (100x magnification). C: SEM of small pore implant with nanotube addition (20,000x magnification). D: Detailed SEM of nanotube surface structures (50,000x magnification). E: and F: Illustration of implant location and orientation in the back of an anesthetized rat and how implant was secured.