Fig. 6: Analysis of compartmental heterogeneity in vascular branching metrics within the human kidney. | npj Imaging

Fig. 6: Analysis of compartmental heterogeneity in vascular branching metrics within the human kidney.

From: Mapping the arterial vascular network in an intact human kidney using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography

Fig. 6

Ai 3D surface masks of the kidney cortex (green), medulla (yellow) and hilum (pink), inter-medullar pillars (dark blue). Aii 3D reconstruction vasculature colour according to anatomical compartment within the human kidney cortex (green), medulla (yellow) and hilum (pink), inter-medullar pillars (dark blue). Aiii Inter-vessel distances are plotted against the total number of vessel voxels for each kidney compartment. Bi Visual heatmap of inter-vessel distance for the entire human kidney, where pink represents the largest inter-vessel distance (>4.5 mm) and white (0 mm) the smallest. Bii A digital zoomed region within cortex and medulla. Biii The 2D slice of the associated HiP-CT raw image with the compartments overlaid.

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