Nondestructive volumetric imaging of tissue microstructure with benchtop x-ray phase-contrast tomography and critical point drying

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1924-1932

  Zysk, Adam M ^a   Garson III, Alfred B ^b   Xu, Qiaofeng ^b   Brey, Eric M ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Brankov, Jovan G ^a   Wernick, Miles N ^a,c   Kuszak, Jerome R ^d,e   Anastasio, Mark A ^b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Now with Lenticular Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRYING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

3D ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL LIMITATIONS; CRITICAL POINT DRYING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VITRO; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PHASE CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SMALL FEATURES; TISSUE MICROSTRUCTURES; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84865615869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.001924     Document Type: Article

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