Large-scale characterization of the microvascular geometry in development and disease by tissue clearing and quantitative ultramicroscopy.

ABSTRACT: Three-dimensional assessment of optically cleared, entire organs and organisms has recently become possible by tissue clearing and selective plane illumination microscopy ("ultramicroscopy"). Resulting datasets can be highly complex, encompass over a thousand images with millions of objects and data of several gigabytes per acquisition. This constitutes a major challenge for quantitative analysis. We have developed post-processing tools to quantify millions of microvessels and their distribution in three-dimensional datasets from ultramicroscopy and demonstrate the capabilities of our pipeline within entire mouse brains and embryos. Using our developed acquisition, segmentation, and analysis platform, we quantify physiological vascular networks in development and the healthy brain. We comp

SUBMITTER: Hahn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8217891 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature