Channeling Effect and Tissue Morphology in a Perfusion Bioreactor Imaged by X-Ray Microtomography

Role of X-ray microtomography in tissue engineering.

The structure and architecture of scaffolds are crucial factors in scaffolds-based tissue engineering since they affect the functionality of the tissue engineering construct and the eventual application in health care. Therefore, effective scaffold assessment techniques are required right at the initial stages of research and development so as to select or design scaffolds with suitable propert...

X-ray microtomography in biology.

Progress in high-resolution X-ray microtomography has provided us with a practical approach to determining three-dimensional (3D) structures of opaque samples at micrometer to submicrometer resolution. In this review, we give an introduction to hard X-ray microtomography and its application to the visualization of 3D structures of biological soft tissues. Practical aspects of sample preparation...

X-ray microtomography of materials

shapes. destructively and with spatial resolution which can approach that of optical microscopy (typically, no After presenting the author’s perspective of the better than 1 mm in samples whose cross-sectional development of microtomography, imaging, X-ray diameter is on the order of 1 mm, and 10 mm for attenuation, and the physical concepts underlying 10 mm specimens). First, X-ray computed to...

X-ray Microtomography of a Sulphide Rich

X-ray microtomography of bones and teeth.

X-ray microtomography is a miniaturized version of computerized axial tomography with a resolution of the order of micrometres. In the biomedical field it is particularly useful in the study of hard tissue because of its ability to accurately measure the linear attenuation coefficient. From this, the mineral concentration can be computed, which is one measure of bone quality. Using microtomogra...