
3D ORGAN IMAGING
Anatomy - Morphology
PULMONARY SEGMENTATION AND MULTIMODAL APPROACH
Aim: The pulmonary vasculature plays a pivotal role in the development and progress of chronic lung diseases. Due to limitations of conventional 2-dimensional histological methods, the complexity and the detailed anatomy of the lung blood circulation might be overlooked. Serial block face imaging (SBFI) can provide rapid, cost-effective, and label-free visualization of mouse lung macrostructures and large pulmonary vessels and brings complementary 3D information for preclinical research on diseases like arterial banding, pulmonary embolism or lung pathologies affecting large airways.
Approach: PFFE block, label free imaging of mouse lung, internal contrast of autofluorescence allows for pixel classification and segmentation of large airways and arterial structures
Result: Qualitative 3D visualization of airway and vascular anatomy of large structures
Images: 2D raw image of lung as fig below pointing structures identified in same color code as that used on the Imaris reconstruction

Representative images of the different zoom levels of the Kratoscope, scale bars 1 mm.


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Left figure: block face image taken at zoom 1 indicating airways (cyan arrowheads), arteries (red arrowheads) and veins (yellow arrows). Right video (unpublished): whole stack of images corresponding to the whole lung


3D renderings obtained from Imaris with addition of vascular and airway branching. Left image: extract from the video shown opposite
Courtesy of Birger Tielemans
Tielemans B et al. Multiscale Three‐Dimensional Evaluation and Analysis of Murine Lung Vasculature From Macro‐ to Micro‐Structural Level. Pulmonary Circulation, 2025; 15:e70038 https://doi.org/10.1002/pul2.70038
Kratoscopy as a service

In collaboration with the microscopy and histology platform MicroPICell from Nantes University / SFR François Bonamy, Kaer Labs can propose the technique as a service. It is as simple as shipping us your organs embedded in paraffin or frozen in OCT. Contact us for more information on prices and processes.