Radiopaque dyes allow vessel imaging in lung tissue using laboratory phase contrast micro-CT

Till Dreier; Gustaf Bernström; Sahel Ganji; Christian Norvik; Karin Tran-Lundmark; Martin Bech

doi:10.1117/12.2632343

14 October 2022 Radiopaque dyes allow vessel imaging in lung tissue using laboratory phase contrast micro-CT

Till Dreier, Gustaf Bernström, Sahel Ganji, Christian Norvik, Karin Tran-Lundmark, Martin Bech

Proceedings Volume 12242, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XIV; 1224203 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632343
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Phase contrast micro-CT is a powerful technique allowing imaging of soft tissue at synchrotrons or using laboratory sources. The use of contrast agents is a useful approach when imaging vascular structures. However, common x-ray contrast agents typically rely on heavy metals to increase absorption, which may affect the phase contrast and cause artifacts in the reconstructed volumes. Thus, utilizing an agent with lower attenuation similar to soft tissue is clearly advantageous. Here, we evaluated different colored radiopaque solutions (tissue marking dyes) which had been injected into the vascular system of bovine lung samples, prior to embedding in paraffin. Scans were performed using a micro-focus x-tube calibrated to 10 µm spot size at 70 kV and a photon counting detector with a silicon sensor and 75 µm pixels. The resulting volumes have a voxel size of (25 µm)³ , limited by the size of the samples, but sufficient to resolve the vascular system. Experiments confirmed that sufficient perfusion of the vessels with the dyes could be achieved, and the different dyes could be clearly discerned in the reconstructed volumes without causing artifacts allowing to clearly identify features in the soft tissue. Further, the findings were confirmed by histology.

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Till Dreier, Gustaf Bernström, Sahel Ganji, Christian Norvik, Karin Tran-Lundmark, and Martin Bech "Radiopaque dyes allow vessel imaging in lung tissue using laboratory phase contrast micro-CT", Proc. SPIE 12242, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XIV, 1224203 (14 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632343

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