🔍Traditional heart #imaging techniques like #Ultrasound, #CT & #MRI are effective for diagnosing cardiovascular disease but lack detailed structural resolution. Histology offers more detail but limits the field of view. 🚀Enter HiP-CT: a new #synchrotron X-ray imaging technique providing a detailed 3D view of the entire adult human heart. “𝐇𝐢𝐏-𝐂𝐓 bridges the gap between traditional imaging and histology with unprecedented resolution,”🎙️says Professor Peter Lee of UCL. This work contributes to the Human Organ Atlas project (https://lnkd.in/eTq97qJJ), which aims to establish an #openscience image database of all human organs in #health and disease. The project is co-funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The results are published in Radiology ➡️https://lnkd.in/dXeTVA2T
Peer inside the human heart. Amazing science. This is the most detailed 3D image of a whole heart we’ve ever seen. From the surface down to the cellular level, an advanced synchrotron technique called HiP-CT, developed at ESRF - The European Synchrotron with UCL and the support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has allowed scientists to map the human heart in unprecedented 3D detail. High-resolution 3D imaging like this can help researchers uncover new information about the structures of organs, what goes wrong when organs are diseased and support the development of new treatments for arrhythmia or other cardiovascular diseases. 📸 Brunet et al. In Radiology