Bone Tissue Engineering

3D rendering from high resolution x-ray CT. Bone (red) can be seen growing into polycaprolactone scaffold (white). Host bone is at the bottom. This scaffold/bone construct was imaged after implantation into the orbital socket of a sheep. The design of the scaffold (porosity, permeability) is critical in establishing a vascular supply to the bone.

Rendered with volume vizualisation tool Drishti: http://anusf.anu.edu.au/Vizlab/drishti/

The X-Ray CT and image processing is described in the following paper:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2004.01.047

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tissue engineering
• bone
• scaffold
• polycaprolactone
• stem cells