Pofessor Amy Wagoner Johson
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research :: Biomaterials::Micro-CT

Micro-CT  - MicroComputed Tomography

Micro-CT is a high resolution x-ray technique used to image a wide range of materials.  Like medical CAT Scans, the acquired data can be used to make 3D reconstructions, or images, of the object.  In our work, we image biomaterials such as hydroxyapatite/tissue and gelatin/gelatin microsphere composites.

Currently, our work is done on a Skyscan 1172 Micro-CT located at the Beckman Institute. The data from the micro-CT is processed in AMIRA software to make 2D and 3D images and histograms of the data.

More information to come...

 

A non-microporous scaffold that was implanted.  Note the lack of bone in the pore space.
A microporous scaffold that was implanted.  Bone has started to grow in the pore space.
A histology slide from a microporous scaffold that was implanted and then mechanically tested in compression.

 

 

   
 

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