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Christopher Werlein
The bronchial circulation in COVID-19 pneumonia.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine : AJRCCM 205(1), 121-125 (2022). doi:10.1164/rccm.202103-0594IM
Multiscale three-dimensional imaging of intact human organs down to the cellular scale using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography
ABSTRACTHuman organs are complex, three-dimensional and multiscale systems. Spatially mapping the human body down through its hierarchy, from entire organs to their individual functional units and specialised cells, is a major obstacle to fully understanding health and disease. To meet this challenge, we developed hierarchical phase-contrast tomography (HiP-CT), an X-ray phase propagation technique utilising the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility’s Extremely Brilliant Source: the world’s first high-energy 4th generation X-ray source. HiP-CT enabled three-dimensional and non-destructive imaging at near-micron resolution in soft tissues at one hundred thousand times the voxel size whilst…
3D virtual histopathology of cardiac tissue from Covid-19 patients based on phase-contrast X-ray tomography
eLife 10, e71359 (2021). doi:10.7554/eLife.71359
Pulmonary vascular endothelialitis, thrombosis, and angiogenesis in Covid-19
Abstract: BackgroundProgressive respiratory failure is the primary cause of death in the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Despite widespread interest in the pathophysiology of the disease, relatively little is known about the associated morphologic and molecular changes in the peripheral lung of patients who die from Covid-19. MethodsWe examined 7 lungs obtained during autopsy from patients who died from Covid-19 and compared them with 7 lungs obtained during autopsy from patients who died from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to influenza A(H1N1) infection and 10 age-matched, uninfected control lungs. The lungs were studied with the use of seven-color immun…
3D virtual Histopathology of Cardiac Tissue from Covid-19 Patients based on Phase-Contrast X-ray Tomography
X-ray phase-contrast tomography datasets of formalin fixed paraffin embedded unstained cardiac tissue from Covid-19 patients as well as from control tissue. For each group one overview scan of the entire biopsy (3.5mm cross section) from binning and stitching different tomograms (PB bin2, voxel size: 1.3µm) as well as the respective laboratory data (LJ, voxel size: 2µm, tissue masked) and a cone-beam zoom tomogram recorded with waveguide illumination (WG, voxel size: 159 nm) is uploaded. Further datasets can be provided on request. The data has been recorded at the institute for X-ray physics (Göttingen, Germany) and DESY at the GINIX instrument, beamline P10 of the PETRAII…