Bone biology facilities

Center of Bone Biology has the equipment needed to prepare bone specimens and perform a microstructural, nanostructural, and micromechanical evaluation of bone tissue. Moreover, the Center of Bone Biology recently acquired the Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) system for the clinical assessment of fracture risk.

Osteodensitometry – Hologic Horizon DXA system:

Bone specimen preparation:

Cutting and polishing equipment:

• Several types of cutting saws and machines, semiautomatic polishing machine

Other equipment for specimen preparation:

• • Laboratory incubator, shaker, magnetic stirrer, light polymerization unit

Bone microstructure evaluation:

• Microcomputed tomography system, Skyscan 1172 (Bruker, Belgium)

Bone histology evaluation:

• Ultrasound-based decalcification unit

• Equipment needed for immunohistochemical staining of decalcified bone specimens

• Leica light polarizing microscope with camera

• Leica stereo microscope

Bone nanostructure:

• Atomic force microscope, Anfatec Level AFM (Anfatec, Germany)

Mechanical evaluation:

• Vicker’s microindentation system, HMV-G V (Shimadzu, Japan)

Medical models and surgical guides manufacturing equipment for bone defect reconstructions:

• HALOT SKY 2022 resin LCD 3D printer (Shenzhen Creality 3D Technology Co, Ltd, China)

• CCreality Ender-3 3D printer (Shenzhen Creality 3D Technology Co, Ltd, China)

• Costume-made deposition modeling 3D printer based on original Prusa I3 3D printer (Prusa Research, Czech Republic)

Computing facilities:

• Computing facilities for virtual preoperative planning and 3D modeling, image analysis, and data analysis