Fig. 3. Average intensity (950–1800 cm–1) image of a non-degenerated paraffin embedded goat IVD section, highlighting anterior annulus fibrosus (aAF, green), posterior annulus fibrosus (pAF, blue) and nucleus pulposus (NP, red) regions (A). Off-set corrected average transflectance FTIR spectra (B) and 2nd derivative spectra (C) of aAF (green), pAF (blue) and NP(red) regions.
