Figure 2.
Experimental setup for the structural tomographic imaging of the nervous system. (a) Schematic view of the experimental setup for synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography. (1) X-rays from a synchrotron bending magnet source illuminated the samples positioned in front of an indirect X-ray detector (2). (3) Several projection images were acquired by a rotational scan and used to digitally reconstruct the tomographic slices (4). (b) Segmentation of one mouse brain hemisphere, showing the brain cortex (green), midbrain (blue) and cerebellum (red).