Imaging of poly(α-hydroxy-ester) scaffolds with X-ray phase-contrast microcomputed tomography

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 859-865

  Appel, Alyssa A ^a,b   Larson, Jeffery C ^a,b   Somo, Sami ^a,b   Zhong, Zhong ^c   Spicer, Patrick P ^d   Kasper, F Kurtis ^d   Garson, Alfred B ^e   Zysk, Adam M ^a   Mikos, Antonios G ^d   Anastasio, Mark A ^e   Brey, Eric M ^a,b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Rice University   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CULTURE CONDITIONS; MATERIAL STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT DATA; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE-CONTRAST; PHASE-SHIFTING; POLYMER SCAFFOLDS; POROUS SCAFFOLD; SCAFFOLD PROPERTIES; SCAFFOLD STRUCTURES; SOFT TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) STRUCTURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; X-RAY ATTENUATION; X-RAY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; X-RAY PROPERTIES;

CELL CULTURE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

LACTIC ACID; POLYESTER; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID POLYGLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER; POLYLACTIC ACID-POLYGLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FISCHER 344 RAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RAT; SKULL; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SYNCHROTRON;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; POLYESTERS; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SKULL; SYNCHROTRONS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868019050     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2012.0123     Document Type: Article

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