The use of mass spectrometry imaging for crystallinity detection offers improved matrix selectivity and sensitivity over the techniques, such as X-ray microscopy Raman spectrometry, that are traditionally used with this work. Crystallinity is observed in electrospray laser desorption ionization (ELDI-MSI) a high-intensity agglomeration analyte spatially resolved image. As an indirect method det...

Introduction Medical Imaging techniques including CT, MRI, Micro-CT and micro-MRI have matured over the last years into affordable, practical and accessible observational tools to the Biomechanics community. These tools provide unique opportunities to expand the knowledge of the biomechanics of the human foot and ankle. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the potential of these i...

This study aimed to evaluate the cause-effect relationship between canal preparation with ProTaper Universal (PTU) system and dentinal defects formation using micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) analysis. Forty mesial canals of mandibular molars with a type II Vertucci's canal configuration were scanned at an isotropic resolution of 14.16 µm. The sample was assigned to an experimental (n = 30)...

The aim of the study was to assess the normal cranial suture and bone diploae ultrastructural morphology. Two types of sutures from different specimens were collected. The micro-CT scanning provided a three-dimensional view of the sutures at a microscopic level thus allowing the evaluation of the development stage and a rapid analysis evaluation of bone and diploae morphology. In the meantime, ...

Tissue invasion and infiltration by brain tumours poses a clinical challenge, with destruction of structures leading to morbidity. We assessed whether micro-CT could be used to map tumour invasion in adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma (ACP), and whether it could delineate ACPs and their intrinsic components from surrounding tissue.Three anonymised archival frozen ACP samples were fixed, iodinat...

Aims Micro-CT is an established tool to evaluate the bone architecture in small animals. Especially in-vivo micro-CT is very popular, as it allows longitudinal (i.e. over time) follow-up of the evolution in the same animal. This way, changes in the bone structure over time can be assessed. Usually, bone parameters are measured separately in the different images. To be comparable, a similar loca...

Aims Nowadays medicine needs material to heal, unite and complete defects of the affected tissue. It often involves with creating three dimensional constructs. Biodegradable materials, which are currently available for bone tissue regeneration, still have limitations regarding their degradation rate. In this case there is a growing need for novel quantitative techniques for the characterization...