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3...4JUN2004: The Skyscan user meeting in Nice
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Nice on the French Mediterannean coast was the pleasant location for the 2004 Skyscan users' meeting - ahead of the ECTS bone conference in the same historic resort town. The lung featured strongly - specifically mouse models of emphysema and asthma imaged both in vivo and ex vivo by users from the pharmaceutical and academic sectors, reflecting the strength of the Skyscan instruments in this application. Other interesting themes "spontaneously" clustered together at the meeting, including validation-intercomparison studies correlating micro-CT measurements of bone with histology (the best correlations to date), synchrotron tomography imaging and biomechanical testing. There was a section on segmentation, including local threshold methods and deformable meshed model techniques aimed at a range of applications (including both bone and soft tissue organs in vivo). And the discussions of technical issues of voltage and filter selection and automatic batch analysis of micro-CT datasets, fitted in well with a presentation of high throughput mouse skeletal phenotyping. All in all an enjoyable and informative get-together. | |
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<<<= Elke Van de Casteele,
SkyScan Sales Manager, explains subjects of her PhD
research on quantitative measurements for Micro-CT instruments.
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<<<= Janet Henderson / Centre for Bone
and Peridontal Research, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. "Micro-CT imaging and phenotyping for skeletal disease" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format) |
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<<<= Phil Salmon / Application
Scientist, SkyScan, Belgium. "New batch-analysis capability in CT-analyser: examples and validation of rodent morphometry study data"
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<<<= Andrei Postnov / RUCA, University
of Antwerp, Belgium "X-ray microtomography of cochlear implant electrodes in human ear" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format)
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<<<= Brian Hayes / GSK, Stevenage, UK. "Micro-computed tomography and correlative histology of the mouse lung" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format)
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<<<= Wolfgang Recheis / University of
Iowa, Dept.of Radiology, Iowa City, USA. "Optimization of Micro-CT scanning procedures for in-vivo, in-situ and ex-vivo analysis of the mouse lung" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format)
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<<<= Christine Chappard / IPROS
Hospital, Orleans, France. "Assessment of trabecular bone microarchitecture from synchrotron radiation and desktop x-ray microtomography: a comparative study on human femoral heads" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format)
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<<<= Armelle Basillais / IPROS
Hospital, Orleans, France. "Structural characterization of cortical bone microarchitecture by microcomputed tomography: correlation with mechanical analysis" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format)
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<<<= Egon Perilli / Instituti
Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy. "MicroCT vs. histology in the morphometric characterization of bone specimens" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format) |
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<<<= Pierre Weiss / University of
Nantes, France. "Synchrotron and non-synchrotron x-ray microtomography 3D representation of bone ingrowth in calcium phosphate biomaterials" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format) |
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<<<= Emmanuel Chereul / ANIMAGE,
CERMEP, Lyon, France. "In-vivo imaging of bone phenotypes, lung, brain, inner ear and heart using the Skyscan-1076; application of 3D meshed model segmentation." (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format) Mohamed Almajdub / ANIMAGE, CERMEP, Lyon, France. "Calibration of the SkyScan-1076 micro-CT scanner for density measurement" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format) |
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<<<= Erwin Waarsing / Erasmum Medical
Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. "An automated segmentation technique for micro-CT imaging" (click here to get abstract in MS-Word format) |
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<<<= Phil Salmon / Application
Scientist, SkyScan, Belgium. "Issues of x-ray energy and filters" |