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Our test specimen is a distal femur from a sheep with two titanium screws. We scanned our specimen with the X4 POSEIDON at an X-ray energy of 110 kV, a 1 mm molybdenum filter, and a voxel size of 30 µm. The cross-sectional image through a titanium screw in the femoral condyle shows no artifacts in the shadow of the metal. The undamaged bone structure in the screw thread is clearly visible.

Thanks to its non-destructive analysis capabilities, Bruker's X4 Poseidon imaging platform is ideally suited for pharmaceutical development and quality control. This 3D X-ray microscope is a benchtop instrument that enables non-destructive analysis of both the outer capsule and its contents using a high-resolution 3D dataset. The image shown here was scanned at a voxel size of 3.5 µm in just 26 minutes.