HiP-CT

What HiP-CT makes

Topics hip-ct, x-ray tomography, human organ atlas, medical imaging, anatomy

Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) is a new x-ray tomography technique that spans a previously poorly explored scale in our understanding of human anatomy, the micron to whole intact organ scale. Using HiP-CT we are developing a 'Human Organ Atlas' that bridges the traditional imaging scales of histology (using optical and electron microscopy images cells and other structures with sub-micron accuracy but only on small biopsies of tissue from an organ) to clinical CT and MRI scans (which can image whole organs, but with a resolution only down to just below a millimetre). HiP-CT bridges these scales in 3D, imaging intact organs with ca. 20 micron voxels, and locally down to the micron scale. We hope this open access Atlas, enabled by the ESRF-EBS, will act as a reference to provide new insights into our biological makeup in health and disease.

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