Three-dimensional non-destructive soft-tissue visualization with X-ray staining micro-tomography

Silva JMDSE, Zanette I, Noel PB, Cardoso MB, Kimm MA, Pfeiffer F (2015)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2015

Journal

Scientific Reports Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Journals - Option B

Book Volume: 5

Article Number: 14088

DOI: 10.1038/srep14088

Abstract

Low inherent contrast in soft tissues has been limiting the use of X-ray absorption micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to access high-resolution structural information of animal organs. The staining agents used in micro-CT to improve the contrast fail in providing high-quality images of whole organs of animals due to diffusion problems of the staining agent into the sample. We demonstrate a staining protocol that incorporates a biochemical conditioning step prior to exposure to the staining agent that succeeds in overcoming the diffusion problems, thus quickly providing high-quality micro-CT images of whole organs of mammals. Besides of yielding non-distorted three-dimensional information at the same spatial resolution accessible in histological sections, micro-CT images of whole organs stained by our method enable easy screening of slices along any direction of the volume thus demonstrating new possibilities of structural analysis in biomedical science.

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE) Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory / Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron (LNLS) BR Brazil (BR)

How to cite

APA:

Silva, J.M.D.S.E., Zanette, I., Noel, P.B., Cardoso, M.B., Kimm, M.A., & Pfeiffer, F. (2015). Three-dimensional non-destructive soft-tissue visualization with X-ray staining micro-tomography. Scientific Reports, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14088

MLA:

Silva, Juliana Martins De S. E, et al. "Three-dimensional non-destructive soft-tissue visualization with X-ray staining micro-tomography." Scientific Reports 5 (2015).

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