Figure 1
(a) Clear and detailed three-dimensional imaging of a chordae tendinea from the papillary muscle to the leaflet of a normal mitral valve obtained by synchrotron-based X-ray phase computed tomography. (b) A selected marginal chorda tendinea (red circle) in an axial image after the imaging process. (c) Calculating density from TIFF images of each tomography slice of the selected samples. |