Low-dose phase-based X-ray imaging techniques for in situ soft tissue engineering assessments

Z Izadifar, A Honaramooz, S Wiebe, G Belev, X Chen… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
In tissue engineering, non-invasive imaging of biomaterial scaffolds and tissues in living
systems is essential to longitudinal animal studies for assessments without interrupting the …

Potential for imaging engineered tissues with X-ray phase contrast

A Appel, MA Anastasio, EM Brey - Tissue Engineering Part B …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
As the field of tissue engineering advances, it is crucial to develop imaging methods capable
of providing detailed three-dimensional information on tissue structure. X-ray imaging …

X‐ray phase contrast imaging of calcified tissue and biomaterial structure in bioreactor engineered tissues

AA Appel, JC Larson, AB Garson III… - Biotechnology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tissues engineered in bioreactor systems have been used clinically to replace damaged
tissues and organs. In addition, these systems are under continued development for many …

Soft tissue 3D imaging in the lab through optimised propagation-based phase contrast computed tomography

B Zeller-Plumhoff, JL Mead, D Tan, T Roose… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Tomographic phase contrast imaging using hard X-rays is instrumental in revealing and
understanding the three-dimensional (3D) anatomic structure of biological tissues. However …

Imaging of poly (α-hydroxy-ester) scaffolds with x-ray phase-contrast microcomputed tomography

AA Appel, JC Larson, S Somo, Z Zhong… - … Engineering Part C …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Porous scaffolds based on poly (α-hydroxy-esters) are under investigation in many tissue
engineering applications. A biological response to these materials is driven, in part, by their …

X-ray phase contrast allows three dimensional, quantitative imaging of hydrogel implants

AA Appel, JC Larson, B Jiang, Z Zhong… - Annals of biomedical …, 2016 - Springer
Three dimensional imaging techniques are needed for the evaluation and assessment of
biomaterials used for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications. Hydrogels are a …

Experimental comparison of grating-and propagation-based hard X-ray phase tomography of soft tissue

S Lang, I Zanette, M Dominietto, M Langer… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
When imaging soft tissues with hard X-rays, phase contrast is often preferred over
conventional attenuation contrast due its superior sensitivity. However, it is unclear which of …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative evaluation of a single-distance phase-retrieval method applied on in-line phase-contrast images of a mouse lung

S Mohammadi, E Larsson, F Alves… - Journal of synchrotron …, 2014 - scripts.iucr.org
Propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography (PBI) has already proven its
potential in a great variety of soft-tissue-related applications including lung imaging …

In-line phase-contrast X-ray imaging and tomography for materials science

SC Mayo, AW Stevenson, SW Wilkins - Materials, 2012 - mdpi.com
X-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography make use of the refraction of X-rays by the
sample in image formation. This provides considerable additional information in the image …

Multiscale X-ray phase contrast imaging of human cartilage for investigating osteoarthritis formation

A Horng, J Stroebel, T Geith, S Milz… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Background The evolution of cartilage degeneration is still not fully understood, partly due to
its thinness, low radio-opacity and therefore lack of adequately resolving imaging …