Ex vivo evaluation of an atherosclerotic human coronary artery via histology and high-resolution hard X-ray tomography.

Abstract:

:Atherosclerotic arteries exhibit characteristic constrictions and substantial deviations from cylindrical shape. Therefore, determining the artery's cross-section along the centerline is challenging, although high-resolution isotropic three-dimensional data are available. Herein, we apply high-resolution computed tomography in absorption and phase to a plaque-containing human artery post-mortem, through the course of the preparation stages for histology. We identify the impact of paraffin embedding and decalcification on the artery lumen. For automatic extraction of lumen's cross-section along centerline we present a dedicated pipeline. Comparing fixated tissue before and after paraffin embedding gives rise to shape changes with lumen reduction to 50-80%. The histological slicing induces further deformations with respect to tomography. Data acquired after decalcification show debris unintentionally distributed within the vessel preventing the reliable automatic lumen segmentation. Comparing tomography of laboratory- and synchrotron-radiation-based X rays by means of joint histogram analysis leads us to conclude that advanced desktop tomography is capable of quantifying the artery's lumen as an essential input for blood flow simulations. The results indicate that the most reliable lumen quantification is achieved by imaging the non-decalcified specimen fixed in formalin, using phase contrast modality and a dedicated processing pipeline. This study focusses on a methodology to quantitatively evaluate diseased artery segments post-mortem and provides unique structural parameters on the treatment-induced local shrinkage, which will be the basis of future studies on the flow in vessels affected by constrictions.

journal_name

Sci Rep

journal_title

Scientific reports

authors

Buscema M,Hieber SE,Schulz G,Deyhle H,Hipp A,Beckmann F,Lobrinus JA,Saxer T,Müller B

doi

10.1038/s41598-019-50711-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-10-04 00:00:00

pages

14348

issue

1

issn

2045-2322

pii

10.1038/s41598-019-50711-1

journal_volume

9

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