1. X-ray micro computed-tomography
Emily Baird, Gavin Taylor 
Current Biology 
Volume 27, Issue 8, Pages R289-R291 (April 2017)
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2. Figure 1
Seeing inside your samples with x-ray micro-computed tomography.
(A) The technique uses x-ray radiation to illuminate a rotating sample, and interactions between the x-rays and the sample are imaged on a detector. A computer algorithm combines images taken from different angles to reconstruct a digital image stack that represents the sample’s three-dimensional structure. This data volume can be analysed to segment and quantify the sample’s surface or internal features. (B) For example, orchid bee ocelli have been analysed with micro-tomography by Taylor et al. (2016), who created a model of the bee’s simple eyes (ocelli) to use in an optical simulation, which calculated their fields of view (bee photograph courtesy of Ajay Narendra). (C) Walker et al. (2014) used micro-tomography to create a four-dimensional movie showing the muscles inside of the thorax of a flying blowfly, from which they could calculate the strains experienced in different parts of its musculature across a wingbeat cycle. Fly photograph in (C) © CanStockPhotolnc./digitalr. Other images taken from Walker et al. (2014), PLoS Biology.
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