Macromolecular Concentrations in Articular Cartilage by Fourier Transform Infrared Imaging
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INTRODUCTION: Fourier transform infrared imaging (FTIRI) is a spectroscopic imaging tool that can be used to study the compositions and structures of biological tissues with fine spatial and spectral resolutions. Many FTIRI studies of articular cartilage use the peak intensities/areas in the infrared absorption images to represent the molecular contents, which can contain large error due to the considerable overlaps of the characteristic bands of multiple molecular components in biological tissues.
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