Journal of Fertilization: In Vitro - IVF-Worldwide, Reproductive Medicine, Genetics & Stem Cell Biol
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Naoto Yagi

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• Research Article
  Synchrotron Imaging of Ovaries Ex Vivo
  Author(s): Upekha Basnayaka, Dean Chapman, Gregg Adams, Tomasz Wysokinski, George Belev, Rani Kanthan, Rajni Chibbar, Robert Lewis, Naoto Yagi, Kentaro Uesugi, Masato Hoshino and Angela Baerwald Upekha Basnayaka, Dean Chapman, Gregg Adams, Tomasz Wysokinski, George Belev, Rani Kanthan, Rajni Chibbar, Robert Lewis, Naoto Yagi, Kentaro Uesugi, Masato Hoshino and Angela Baerwald
  
  Background: Conventional 2-dimensional ultrasonography is limited in its ability to detect ovarian microanatomy. The objective of this study was to determine if biomedical synchrotron techniques would be effective for imaging ovarian microanatomy, including ovarian follicles, corpora lutea, and the oocyte. Methods: A prospective, observational study was conducted at the Canadian Light Source to compare ovarian imaging ex vivo using propagation-based computed tomography (PB-CT) synchrotron imaging, ultrasonography, and histology. Bovine (n=4) and human (n=4) ovaries were imaged fresh or formalin-fixed. The effectiveness of Talbot grating interferometry computed tomography (TGI-CT) synchrotron imaging to image preserved bovine (n=1) and human (n=1) ovaries were evaluated at the SPring-8 synchrotron, Japan. Results: A.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2375-4508.1000169

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