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author Alarcón, Marta Girona
Kuo, Willy
Humbel, Mattia
Tanner, Christine
Fardin, Luca
Bausch, Britta
Decker, Yann
Spera, Irene
Rodgers, Griffin
Deyhle, Hans
Bravin, Alberto
Hoshino, Masato
Panahifar, Arash
Uesugi, Kentaro
Gasilov, Sergei
Pleskač, Petr
Zhang, Yuansheng
de Zélicourt, Diane
Brenna, Amandine
Hamid, Ahmad Kamal
Khamesi, Pooya Razzaghi
Engelhardt, Britta
Proulx, Steven T.
Müller, Bert
Kurtcuoglu, Vartan
author_facet Alarcón, Marta Girona
Kuo, Willy
Humbel, Mattia
Tanner, Christine
Fardin, Luca
Bausch, Britta
Decker, Yann
Spera, Irene
Rodgers, Griffin
Deyhle, Hans
Bravin, Alberto
Hoshino, Masato
Panahifar, Arash
Uesugi, Kentaro
Gasilov, Sergei
Pleskač, Petr
Zhang, Yuansheng
de Zélicourt, Diane
Brenna, Amandine
Hamid, Ahmad Kamal
Khamesi, Pooya Razzaghi
Engelhardt, Britta
Proulx, Steven T.
Müller, Bert
Kurtcuoglu, Vartan
contents Current approaches to in vivo imaging of the mouse central nervous system (CNS) do not offer a combination of micrometer resolution and a whole-brain field of view. To address this limitation, we introduce an approach based on synchrotron radiation-based hard X-ray micro computed tomography (SR$μ$CT). We performed intravital SR$μ$CT acquisitions of mouse CNS fluid spaces at three synchrotron radiation facilities. Imaging was conducted on both anesthetized free-breathing and ventilated animals, with and without retrospective cardiac gating. We achieved whole-brain imaging at 6.3 $μ$m uniform voxel size, observed the distribution of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contrast agent over time and quantified choroid plexus movement. SR$μ$CT bridges the gap between multiphoton microscopy and magnetic resonance imaging, offering dynamic imaging with micrometer-scale resolution and whole-organ field of view. Intravital SR$μ$CT will play a crucial role in validating and integrating hypotheses on CSF dynamics and solute transport by providing unique data that cannot be acquired otherwise.
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spellingShingle In vivo imaging of central nervous system fluid spaces using synchrotron radiation-based micro computed tomography
Alarcón, Marta Girona
Kuo, Willy
Humbel, Mattia
Tanner, Christine
Fardin, Luca
Bausch, Britta
Decker, Yann
Spera, Irene
Rodgers, Griffin
Deyhle, Hans
Bravin, Alberto
Hoshino, Masato
Panahifar, Arash
Uesugi, Kentaro
Gasilov, Sergei
Pleskač, Petr
Zhang, Yuansheng
de Zélicourt, Diane
Brenna, Amandine
Hamid, Ahmad Kamal
Khamesi, Pooya Razzaghi
Engelhardt, Britta
Proulx, Steven T.
Müller, Bert
Kurtcuoglu, Vartan
Medical Physics
Current approaches to in vivo imaging of the mouse central nervous system (CNS) do not offer a combination of micrometer resolution and a whole-brain field of view. To address this limitation, we introduce an approach based on synchrotron radiation-based hard X-ray micro computed tomography (SR$μ$CT). We performed intravital SR$μ$CT acquisitions of mouse CNS fluid spaces at three synchrotron radiation facilities. Imaging was conducted on both anesthetized free-breathing and ventilated animals, with and without retrospective cardiac gating. We achieved whole-brain imaging at 6.3 $μ$m uniform voxel size, observed the distribution of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contrast agent over time and quantified choroid plexus movement. SR$μ$CT bridges the gap between multiphoton microscopy and magnetic resonance imaging, offering dynamic imaging with micrometer-scale resolution and whole-organ field of view. Intravital SR$μ$CT will play a crucial role in validating and integrating hypotheses on CSF dynamics and solute transport by providing unique data that cannot be acquired otherwise.
title In vivo imaging of central nervous system fluid spaces using synchrotron radiation-based micro computed tomography
topic Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03186