Observation of Rat Organs Using Crystal-Based X-Ray Interferometry

Abstract

Crystal-based x-ray interferometry of soft tissue structures with high spatial resolution has become feasible. It has ability to depict the fine morphological structures of biological soft tissues in which the information content is comparable to that of low power microscopic histological image. In addition, phase-contrast x-ray tomography is a three-dimensional method which yields volume data to reveal insights the structure of soft tissue samples without destruction in short acquisition time compare to conventional histological image. Here, we observed the formalin-fixed soft tissue such as kidney, spleen and brain from rats imaged using high resolution crystal-based X-ray imaging system.