Visualization of Vascular and Parenchymal Regeneration after 70% Partial Hepatectomy in Normal MiceChichi Xie 1, Weiwei Wei 1, Andrea Schenk 3, Lars Ole Schwen 3, Sara Zafarnia 2, Michael Schwier 3, Felix Gremse 2, Isabel Jank 1, Olaf Dirsch 4, Uta Dahmen 1
1Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 2Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University, 3Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS, 4Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH
Tools used for visualizing vascular regeneration require methods for contrasting the vascular trees. This film demonstrated a delicate injection technique used to achieve optimal contrasting of the vascular trees and illustrate the potential benefits resulting from a detailed analysis of the resulting specimen using µCT and histological serial sections.
