Microfil (TM) filled vascular cast of a heart from an insulin resistant rat. Vessels appear white within the brown cardiac muscle.
Rodent hearts are being used to investigate how diabetes affects blood supply to the heart.
Single wavelength x-ray CT (3D) from the Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL), Australian Synchrotron.
Data was processed on the MASSIVE computer cluster using X-traCT software supplied by CSIRO.
The movie was rendered using Australian National University Dristhi software.
James Pearson Monash University/IMBL, Mikiyasu Shirai and Hirotsugu Tschimochi National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center, Japan and Daryl Schwenke, University of Otago, New Zealand.
