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Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy
Published in: Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy 3/2004

01-06-2004 | Technical Note

Analysis of commercial plastination agents

Authors: P. Chaynes, A.-F. Mingotaud

Published in: Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy | Issue 3/2004

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Abstract

S3, S6 and S10 are the most commonly used agents for tissue plastination. Surprisingly, their chemical structures are not known. We therefore decided to fully characterize these products by standard analytical methods: multinucleus magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy and size exclusion chromatography. These experiments have shown that Biodur S10 is a polydimethylsiloxane with a molecular weight of 27,200 and silanol functionalities, Biodur S6 is tetraethoxysilane, and Biodur S3 is a mixture the main component of which is dibutyltindilaurate.
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Metadata
Title
Analysis of commercial plastination agents
Authors
P. Chaynes
A.-F. Mingotaud
Publication date
01-06-2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy / Issue 3/2004
Print ISSN: 0930-1038
Electronic ISSN: 1279-8517
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-003-0216-9

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