Zoology and botany

MicroCT mineralization is the most widely used to provide a non-profit three-dimensional images of technology.It can keep the internal structure of animals and plants.

Zoology involves the study of the animal kingdom, including population level and behavior level, and the study of animal as a whole and body composition.Animal morphology and anatomy studies requires accurate imaging technology, in order to obtain three-dimensional structure of the internal and external image.Widely used in animal tissues, however, only a few nondestructive imaging methods.

X-ray micro computed tomography (micro - CT) is the rise in recent decades of a micro computer tomography technology.This technique is used for research in bone.However, it is also a powerful tool that can be used to measure the three-dimensional quantitative image of the mineralized tissue, as to research in aquatic environment and the structure of land vertebrates and invertebrates.Micro - CT has a very wide range of application scope, the technology of animals to soft tissue and its components (can be small to single cells or muscle fibers) measurements and cross section of volume, high resolution, high contrast imaging.

Micro - CT can also be applied in the field of botany - it has been widely used in plant internal structure for three-dimensional imaging and quantitative accurately non-destructive.The technology has been applied in virtual 3 d reconstruction of flowers, to analyze its geometry.Flower of micro - CT do not need to sample pretreatment, and this technique can study all stored in 70% ethanol in the flowers.Such as brooke SkyScan 1275 scanner can capture the relatively low density fine images of the plant material, such as a rose leaf.

Brooke's SkyScan series micro - high resolution computed tomography (CT) system is a kind of dramatic and powerful tool, can be used in the field of zoology and botany.Just a few minutes to several hours of scanning, it can provide detailed 3 d reconstruction of animal and plant structure.