摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a porous artificial bone including a structure more similar to a biological bone. <P>SOLUTION: The porous artificial bone includes a structure of repetitive arrangement of a tetrahedrally coordinated rod structure unit in which four rods are arranged to extend from the centroid of a regular tetrahedron to apexes. The porosity of a first unit and the porosity of a second unit may be different. The rod is preferably apatite, α-tribasic calcium phosphate (α-TCP), β-tribasic calcium phosphate (β-TCP), tetracalcium phosphate (TTCP), octacalcium phosphate (OCP), or their mixture. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |