Table 1 Experimental and reconstruction details for SAXS-TT scans.

From: Nanostructure-specific X-ray tomography reveals myelin levels, integrity and axon orientations in mouse and human nervous tissue

 

C57BL/6 brain (mouse)

Spinal cord (mouse)

V1 cortex (human)

CC splenium/body (human)

Rag2−/−(sh/−) brains (mouse)

Beamline, synchrotron

cSAXS, SLS

LiX, NSLS-II

4-2, SSRL

cSAXS, SLS

LiX, NSLS-II

Tube diameter (mm)

10

3

20a

10

10

Beam energy (keV)

16.3

15.7

17

16.3

16.9

Beam size (μm2)

150 × 150

100 × 100

250 × 250

150 × 150

120 × 120

Motor step size (μm)

150

100

250

150

120

Field of view (pixels)

69 × 105

38 × 61

85 × 90

70 × 82

91 × 41

Field of view, size (mm2)

10.35 × 15.75

3.8 × 6.1

21 × 22.5a

10.5 × 12.3

10.92 × 4.92

No. of projections

267

60

151

254

181

Rotation axis tilt angles (°)

0, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 45, 50

0

0

0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50

0

Nr of projections/tilt

67, 34, 32, 32, 30, 26, 24, 22

60

151

66, 56, 50, 44, 38

181

Exposure time/frame (ms)

125

300

120

80

100

Total exposure time (h)

67.1

11.6

38.5a

25.3

18.8

Total scan time (h)

87.2

17.4

61a

36.8

24.8

Doseb (Gy)

2.33 × 104

9.96 × 104

1.1 × 104

1.38 × 104

2.48 × 104

Reconstruction iterations

10,000

2,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

  1. a These values include scanning of two more specimens, not incorporated in the present study, that were scanned together with the V1 sample (in the same tube, next to one another, see Supplementary Fig. 1).
  2. bDose in \({\mathrm{{Gy}}}(=\frac{{\mathrm{{energy}}}\,({\mathrm{{J}}})}{{\mathrm{{mass}}}({\mathrm{{kg}}})})\) was calculated as \(\frac{({\mathrm{{photon}}}\,{\mathrm{{flux}}})\times ({\mathrm{{exposure}}}\,{\mathrm{{time}}})\times ({\mathrm{{tissue}}}\,{\mathrm{{absorbtion}}})\times ({\mathrm{{photon}}}\,{\mathrm{{energy}}})}{({\mathrm{{tissue}}}\,{\mathrm{{volume}}})\times ({\mathrm{{tissue}}}\,{\mathrm{{density}}})}\)