Wednesday 6 September 2017

Plant CT

Several people asked about published work on contrast-enhanced microCT for plant specimens. Here is an article from a group in Vienna, and a couple of more recent ones, as well as a couple of pictures I made using vascular contrast agents on wild and domestic cereal plants (details on request). 

Staedler YM, Masson D, Schonenberger J. (2013).
Plant Tissues in 3D via X-Ray Tomography: Simple Contrasting Methods Allow High Resolution Imaging. PLoS ONE 8(9): e75295.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086499

Saoirse R. Tracy, José Fernández Gómez, Craig J. Sturrock, Zoe A. Wilson and Alison C. Ferguson. 2017. Non-destructive determination of floral staging in cereals using X-ray micro computed tomography (µCT). Plant Methods 13:9
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-017-0162-x

David Rousseau†, Thomas Widiez†, Sylvaine Di Tommaso, Hugo Rositi, Jerome Adrien, Eric Maire, Max Langer, Cécile Olivier, Françoise Peyrin and Peter Rogowsky. 2015.
Fast virtual histology using X-ray in-line phase tomography: application to the 3D anatomy of maize developing seeds. Plant Methods 11:55
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-015-0098-y