Synchrotron- and laboratory-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging for imaging mouse articular cartilage in the absence of radiopaque contrast agents

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2010, 2014, Pages

  Marenzana, Massimo ^a,b   Hagen, Charlotte K ^c   Das Neves Borges, Patricia ^a   Endrizzi, Marco ^c   Szafraniec, Magdalena B ^c   Vincent, Tonia L ^b   Rigon, Luigi ^d   Arfelli, Fulvia ^d   Menk, Ralf Hendrik ^e   Olivo, Alessandro ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analyser based synchrotron X ray phase contrast imaging; Coded aperture X ray phase contrast imaging; Contrast enhanced microCT; Mouse articular cartilage; Osteoarthritis; Phosphotungstic acid stain

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; MAMMALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; X RAYS;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; MICRO CT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID; SYNCHROTRON X RAYS; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANALYSER-BASED SYNCHROTRON X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; C57BL MOUSE; CODED-APERTURE X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; CONTRAST-ENHANCED MICROCT; EQUIPMENT; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MOUSE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID STAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNCHROTRON;

ANALYSER-BASED SYNCHROTRON X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; CODED-APERTURE X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; CONTRAST-ENHANCED MICROCT; MOUSE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID STAIN;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; LABORATORIES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84901008138     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0127     Document Type: Article

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