| Literature DB >> 33197015 |
Yung Kim1, Michael D Brodt1, Simon Y Tang1, Matthew J Silva2.
Abstract
The purpose of this Chapter is to present a detailed description of methods for performing bone Micro-Computed Tomography (microCT) scanning and analysis. MicroCT is an x-ray imaging method capable of visualizing bone at the micro-structural scale, that is, 1-100 µm resolution. MicroCT is the gold-standard method for assessment of 3D bone morphology in studies of small animals. As applied to the small bones of mice or rats, microCT can efficiently and accurately assess bone structure (e.g., cortical bone area [Ct.Ar]) and micro-structure (e.g., trabecular bone volume fraction [Tb.BV/TV]). The particular application described herein is for post mortem mouse femur specimens. The material presented should be generally applicable to many commercially available laboratory microCT systems, although some details are specific to the system used in our lab (Scanco mCT 40; SCANCO Medical AG, Bruttisellen, Switzerland).Entities:
Keywords: Bone imaging; Bone morphology; Mouse femur; microCT
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Year: 2021 PMID： 33197015 PMCID： PMC8409170 DOI： 10.1007/978-1-0716-1028-2_11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN： 1064-3745