Overview at 19.57um of the brain of donor S-21-33, scanned at ESRF on beamline BM18.

Overview at 19.57um of the brain of donor S-21-33, scanned at ESRF on beamline BM18 using the HiP-CT imaging technique. Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) is an X-ray technique that decouples field of view and resolution to image anywhere in the human body with cellular (micron) resolution. Imaging areas can be full organs at a resolution of 25 micron or zoomed regions in these organs with resolutions between 6 and 0.6 micron, one hundred times the resolution of medical CT.

供体S-21-33的大脑在19.57微米分辨率下的全景成像，该样本于欧洲同步辐射装置（European Synchrotron Radiation Facility，ESRF）的BM18光束线采用HiP-CT成像技术完成扫描。分层相衬断层成像（Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography，HiP-CT）是一种X射线成像技术，可实现视场与分辨率的解耦，能够以细胞级（微米级）分辨率对人体任意部位进行成像。其成像范围既包括分辨率达25微米的完整器官，也涵盖这些器官内的放大区域，分辨率介于6至0.6微米之间，成像分辨率为医用CT的一百倍。