Use of metal-based contrast agents for in vivo MR and CT imaging of phagocytic cells in neurological pathologies

M Wiart, C Tavakoli, V Hubert, I Hristovska… - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2023 - Elsevier
The activation of phagocytic cells is a hallmark of many neurological diseases. Imaging them
in their 3-dimensional cerebral environment over time is crucial to better understand their …

Cryogenic contrast-enhanced microCT enables nondestructive 3D quantitative histopathology of soft biological tissues

A Maes, C Pestiaux, A Marino, T Balcaen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biological tissues comprise a spatially complex structure, composition and organization at
the microscale, named the microstructure. Given the close structure-function relationships in …

From mouse to man and back: closing the correlation gap between imaging and histopathology for lung diseases

B Tielemans, K Dekoster, SE Verleden, S Sawall… - Diagnostics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lung diseases such as fibrosis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, infection and cancer are life-
threatening conditions that slowly deteriorate quality of life and for which our diagnostic …

X-ray phase tomography with near-field speckles for three-dimensional virtual histology

MC Zdora, P Thibault, W Kuo, V Fernandez, H Deyhle… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
High-contrast, high-resolution imaging of biomedical specimens is indispensable for
studying organ function and pathologies. Conventional histology, the gold standard for soft …

[HTML][HTML] X-ray micro-computed tomography for nondestructive three-dimensional (3D) X-ray histology

OL Katsamenis, M Olding, JA Warner… - The American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Historically, micro-computed tomography (μCT) has been considered unsuitable for
histologic analysis of unstained formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded soft tissue biopsy …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual histology of an entire mouse brain from formalin fixation to paraffin embedding. Part 1: Data acquisition, anatomical feature segmentation, tracking …

G Rodgers, W Kuo, G Schulz, M Scheel, A Migga… - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background: Micrometer-resolution neuroimaging with gold-standard conventional histology
requires tissue fixation and embedding. The exchange of solvents for the creation of …

Multiscale X-ray phase-contrast tomography: from breast CT to micro-CT for virtual histology

LMA Peña, S Donato, D Bonazza, L Brombal… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase-contrast imaging techniques address the issue of poor soft-tissue contrast
encountered in traditional X-ray imaging. This can be accomplished with the propagation …

[HTML][HTML] 3d virtual histology reveals pathological alterations of cerebellar granule cells in multiple sclerosis

J Frost, B Schmitzer, M Töpperwien, M Eckermann… - Neuroscience, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate structural properties of neurons in the granular layer of human cerebellum
with respect to their involvement in multiple sclerosis (MS). To this end we analyze data …

Integrating X-ray phase-contrast imaging and histology for comparative evaluation of breast tissue malignancies in virtual histology analysis

S Donato, LM Arana Peña, F Arfelli, L Brombal… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Detecting breast tissue alterations is essential for cancer diagnosis. However, inherent
bidimensionality limits histological procedures' effectiveness in identifying these changes …

Three-dimensional analysis of human pancreatic cancer specimens by phase-contrast based X-ray tomography–the next dimension of diagnosis

D Pinkert-Leetsch, J Frohn, P Ströbel, F Alves, T Salditt… - Cancer Imaging, 2023 - Springer
Background The worldwide increase of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which
still has one of the lowest survival rates, requires novel imaging tools to improve early …