Human Organ Atlas: HiP-CT imaging of a healthy human brain using the ESRF-EBS

Seeing inside a healthy brain using a new imaging technique - Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography or ‘HiP-CT’. Performed at the ESRF-EBS 4th generation synchrotron in Grenoble HiP-CT is a new technique that can hierarchically image intact whole human organs. Beginning with a scan of the whole organ at the resolution of a human hair (25μm/voxel), followed by zooming in to any area at a resolution of 1/10th a human hair (6μm/voxel), and finally zooming in again to a resolution where we can see single cells (1.5μm/voxel). HiP-CT imaging of a whole brain from a 69yr old female donor using the new capabilities of ESRF-EBS. The brain is one of the most complex organs, controlling most of our bodily processes. In the video we can initially see the whole human brain, with the two hemispheres at the front and the cerebellum at the back. As we zoom in more features are visible including the grey and white matter and as we zoom in further the small blood vessels become visible and the layers of the cerebellum. Th