Volume shrinkage of bone, brain and muscle tissue in sample preparation for micro-CT and light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM)

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1208-1217

  Buytaert, Jan ^a   Goyens, Jana ^a,b   De Greef, Daniel ^a   Aerts, Peter ^b   Dirckx, Joris ^a  

^a Laboratory of Biomedical Physics   (Belgium)

^b Laboratory of Functional Morphology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bone; light sheet microscopy; shrinkage; soft tissue; specimen preparation; staining; volume; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BONE; BRAIN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLES; RABBITS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84905283032     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927614001329     Document Type: Article

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