SEM-CT observation of bone from mice using environmental-SEM

Author

Nakajima, Masahiro ; Takeuchi, Masaru ; Masuda, T. ; Anada, Takahisa ; Suzuki, Osamu ; Fukuda, Toshio ; Qiang Huang ; Hasegawa, Yohei

Author_Institution

Center For Micro-nano Mechatron., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Computer topography (CT) imaging is one of the powerful-tools for nondestructive observation technique. In this paper, we present observation of bone from mice by scanning electron microscope (SEM)-CT system using environmental- SEM (E-SEM). The advantage of this SEM-CT system is able to image in high-resolution with less than 400 nm resolution. We investigated the effects of X-ray wavelengths and intensities to improve the imaging contrast for SEM-CT observation. From experimental results, a porous structures were observed inside the bone sample with approximately 10 μm pores.

Keywords

bone; computerised tomography; image resolution; medical image processing; porosity; scanning electron microscopy; SEM-CT observation; X-ray intensities; X-ray wavelengths; bone sample; computer topography imaging; environmental-SEM; high-resolution image; imaging contrast; mice; nondestructive observation technique; porous structures; scanning electron microscope system; Bones; Computed tomography; Scanning electron microscopy; Three-dimensional displays; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (MHS), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6678-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MHS.2014.7006069

Filename

7006069