Fig. 1: Photoacoustic tomography of systemic vasculature of in vivo mouse.
From: In vivo noninvasive systemic myography of acute systemic vasoactivity in female pregnant mice
a Imaging chamber of TriTom system. 1 Animal holder with nose cone, (2) Arc array detector, (3) Excitation termini, (4) Heating pad, (5) Water tank. b Representative 3D volume of a pregnant mouse indicating internal thoracic artery (ita) and placentas (p), (c) 3D volume filtered with frangi vesselness filter, (d) 3D volume of a section of artery indicated with yellow box in (c). e A single placenta with spiral artery (sa), labyrinth (lb), and umbilical cord (um). f Uterine artery (utA) feeding the placenta. g 3D volume of fetus indicating head (h), umbilical cord (um) and fetal aorta (fa).
