Seeing inside a COVID-19 injured lung (VIDEO)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

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Using the world's brightest X-ray source, the ESRF-EBS, an ESRF-UCL team of scientists together with German medics are use a synchtron technique called Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) to image with cellular resolution anywhere in a human body. This video shows feasibility results using HiP-CT to image the injury done to the lung of a 54 year old COVID-19 victim to help understand the injury caused by COVID-19. (Credit : ESRF) https://youtu.be/zhPWCR7bBeI

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