Although microCT provides volumetric data at a near-microscopic resolution, the technique’s inherent X-ray attenuation means the vasculature cannot be discriminated from the surrounding soft tissues.
In this webinar, Dr. Ruslan Hlushchuk (Universität Bern, Institute of Anatomy) and Dr. Kjell Laperre (Bruker Biospin’s Pre-Clinical Imaging Division) will introduce a new radiopaque contrast agent called μAngiofil that can be used to overcome this challenge.
For ex vivo angiography, it provides microvascular imaging down to the fine-capillary level, without requiring prior tissue maceration or bone removal/decalcification. Other advantages are that the sample can be used for subsequent correlative morphology and quantitative analysis can be performed, without requiring extensive post-processing.
This webinar took place on March 5th, 2020
Ruslan will describe the microCT-based visualization that can be achieved with the polymerizing contrast agent μAngiofil. He will discuss the perfusion procedure, sample harvesting and handling involved. Bruker Biospin’s Skyscan 1272 will be introduced, as well as the higher energy Skyscan 1273 and 2214 that enable the imaging of denser samples.
This webinar will interest customers and potential customers, facility managers, people from contract research organizations, as well as preclinical researchers and people in basic research who specialize in cardiovascular- neurovascular- and angiogenesis-related fields. It would also appeal to implantology researchers.
Dr. Ruslan Hlushchuk
Lecturer and Group Leader at the Department of Topographic and Clinical Anatomy at the Universität Bern, Institute of Anatomy
Kjell Laperre, PhD
Micro-CT Market Product & Applications Manager in the Bruker Biospin Pre-Clinical Imaging Division