Neutron Radiography and Computed Tomography of Biological Systems at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope ReactorHassina Z. Bilheux *1, Maria Cekanova *2,3,4, Jeffrey M. Warren *5, Matthew J. Meagher 6, Ryan D. Ross 6, Jean C. Bilheux 1,7, Singanallur Venkatakrishnan 8, Jiao Y.Y. Lin 1,9, Yuxuan Zhang 1, Matthew R. Pearson 9,10, Erik Stringfellow 1
1Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Tennessee, 3UT-ORNL Graduate School of Genome, Science and Technology, The University of Tennessee, 4Integrity Laboratories, 5Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 6Department of Cell & Molecular Medicine, Rush Medical College, Rush University, 7Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 8Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 9Now at Second Target Station Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 10Neutron Technologies Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This manuscript describes a protocol for neutron radiography and computed tomography of biological samples using a High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) CG-1D beamline to measure a metal implant in a rat femur, a mouse lung, and an herbaceous plant root/soil system.
