Imaging intact human organs with local resolution of cellular structures using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography.
Nat Methods
; 18(12): 1532-1541, 2021 12.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1504972
ABSTRACT
Imaging intact human organs from the organ to the cellular scale in three dimensions is a goal of biomedical imaging. To meet this challenge, we developed hierarchical phase-contrast tomography (HiP-CT), an X-ray phase propagation technique using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)'s Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS). The spatial coherence of the ESRF-EBS combined with our beamline equipment, sample preparation and scanning developments enabled us to perform non-destructive, three-dimensional (3D) scans with hierarchically increasing resolution at any location in whole human organs. We applied HiP-CT to image five intact human organ types brain, lung, heart, kidney and spleen. HiP-CT provided a structural overview of each whole organ followed by multiple higher-resolution volumes of interest, capturing organotypic functional units and certain individual specialized cells within intact human organs. We demonstrate the potential applications of HiP-CT through quantification and morphometry of glomeruli in an intact human kidney and identification of regional changes in the tissue architecture in a lung from a deceased donor with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
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Lung
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Nat Methods
Journal subject:
Laboratory Techniques and procedures
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S41592-021-01317-x
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