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  • Heart injected with liquid metal

    12/08/2013 2:03:38 PM PST · by Utilizer · 11 replies
    Cornell University Library ^ | (Submitted on 26 Nov 2013) | Qian Wang, Yang Yu, Keqin Pan, Jing Liu
    Visualizing the anatomical vessel networks plays a vital role in physiological or pathological investigations. However, identifying the fine structures of the smallest capillary vessels via conventional imaging ways remains a big challenge. Here, the room temperature liquid metal angiography was proposed for the first time to produce mega contrast X-ray images for multi-scale vasculature mapping. Gallium was used as the room temperature liquid metal contrast agent and perfused into the vessels of in vitro pig hearts and kidneys. We scanned the samples under X-ray and compared the angiograms with those obtained via conventional contrast agent--the iohexol. As quantitatively proved by...