Figure 8.

An ex vivo high-resolution µCT imaging and reconstruction of the organization of chronic rejection. The airways (light blue), arterial vessels (pink), and venous vessels (red) of the transplanted left lung were segmented and reconstructed in 3D (middle large picture) in an isograft (left) and an allograft (right). A transverse and sagittal image of the scans is presented above and below the reconstruction. On the right and left sides of the figure, μCT (top) and histological (bottom) details of the broncho-vascular bundle, specifically of the location of the white arrow line, identify the arterial origin of rejection at the generation where airways go over in respiratory bronchioles.