Comparative hard x-ray tomography for virtual histology of zebrafish larva, human tooth cementum, and porcine nerve.

Synchrotron radiation-based tomography yields microanatomical features in human and animal tissues without physical slicing. Recent advances in instrumentation have made laboratory-based phase tomography feasible. We compared the performance of three cutting-edge laboratory systems benchmarked by synchrotron radiation-based tomography for three specimens.