Advanced High-Resolution Tomography in Regenerative Medicine: Three-Dimensional Exploration into the Interactions between Tissues, Cells, and Biomaterials

This book covers the state-of-the-art research on advanced high-resolution tomography, exploring its role in regenerative medicine. and also explores the 3D interactions between tissues, cells, and biomaterials. Various multidisciplinary paths in regenerative medicine are covered, including X-ray microtomography and its role in regenerative medicine, synchrotron radiation-based microtomography and phase contrast tomography, the challenge of the vascularization of regenerated tissues, lung and cartilage imaging, and more. This is an ideal book for biomedical engineers, biologists, physicists, clinicians, and students who want to pursue their studies in the field of regenerative medicine.

This book also:

Reviews in detail the algorithms and software used for the 3D exploration of regenerated tissue

Covers the latest research on the use of X-ray microtomography for muscle diseases

Details applications of synchrotron radiation tomography in orthopedicsand dentistry

Alessandra Giuliani is a Senior Scientist in Applied Physics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona, Italy). Her research activity is focused on issues related to tissue engineering and particularly on the characterization of constructs for the study/regeneration of bone and muscle tissue through advanced physical techniques, including high-resolution X-ray tomography.

Alessia Cedola, Italian citizen, received in 1999 the PhD degree summa cum laude at the University “Joseph Fourier" in Grenoble (France) with an experimental thesis at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). She is currently permanent senior scientist of the National Research Council (CNR) at Institute of Nanotechnology in Rome.  She is enabled Associate Professor of Experimental Physics. She is responsible of the X-ray physics group at CNR in Rome.  

Member of,

i)  Two Management Committees of the European Science Foundation Project COST,

ii)  Scientific Committee of several International conferences on physics and X-ray optics.,

iii) Editorial Board of the Journal Scientific Reports – Nature.

She is currently principal investigator of several European and National financed projects. She works on X-ray imaging, X-ray Phase Contrast Tomography applied to Biomedical applications. She received several invitation to plenary and talks. She has more than 120 publications with 1400 citations.