Current Advances and Perspectives in Biomedical Imaging
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2021) | Viewed by 3655
Special Issue Editors
Interests: X-ray imaging; numerical phase retrieval; micro-CT and nano-CT; signal processing; X-ray scattering; materials science; X-ray detectors; X-ray optics; acoustics
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Interests: biomedical engineering; biomechanics; biomaterials; computer science; prosthesis; digital medical images; engineering; mining; processing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute a research paper and/or substantial review to this Special Issue on “X-Ray Imaging of Biomaterials”. Those two topics have been strongly intertwined ever since the discovery of X-rays 125 years ago by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Using X-rays, we were finally able to visualize not just the skeleton but the entire anatomy of living creatures. When computed tomography (CT) was developed in the late 1960s, X-ray imaging became the leading tool for volume image acquisition. In the 1980s, micro-CT was developed, and material science was immediately at the center of attention of this new method which spread like wildfire when third-generation synchrotron facilities were set up with imaging beamlines micro-CT was added to these stations in 1990. Three decades later, their efforts have produced several offspring of micro-CT, e.g., phase contrast and/or darkfield X-ray imaging, X-ray fluorescence mapping, X-ray microscopy, and in particular the recent advances through lens-less ptychography. All these techniques—or, sometimes, their combination—have found profound applications in the study of microanatomy and diseases which impact on the latter, as well as in advancing the development of novel biomaterials in implants, particularly in scaffolds.
With the dire situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and with third-generation synchrotron sources upgrading their power worldwide, boosting their X-ray imaging capabilities to unprecedented levels, researchers in this field are called upon to define new strategies for using the data obtained by these powerful tools to advance the field and/or speed up the understanding, containment, and treatment of new diseases. These are challenging times, very much like 125 years ago.
Dr. Simon Zabler
Dr. Jarosław Zubrzycki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Micro-CT, computed tomography
- Biomaterials
- Phase contrast imaging
- X-ray scanning
- (fluorescence and scattering)
- Correlative imaging (or correlative tomography)
- Biomedical imaging
- Small-animal studies by in vivo CT
- Biodegradable scaffolds
- Additive manufacturing of biomaterials
- Medical implants (tooth, hip, knee, spine)
- Bio-inspired materials
- Bionics
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