Fig. 5: Micro-CT analysis on degradation behavior of implants.
From: Alloying design of biodegradable zinc as promising bone implants for load-bearing applications
a Radiographs of implants in rat femurs. Post-surgery (first row), 8 weeks after implantation (second row), 8 weeks 3D reconstructions with bone tissue (third row) and 8 weeks 3D reconstructions without bone tissue (fourth row). Degradation products are marked in red. b Change in implant volume (n = 4 independent samples). c In vivo degradation rates (n = 4, independent samples). For box-whisker plots, box edges correspond to 25th and 75th percentiles, lines inside the box correspond to 50th percentiles, and whiskers include minimum and maximum of all data points. *P < 0.05 by one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post hoc test, compared with Zn. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
