Current Approaches for Image Fusion of Histological Data with Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Figure 4

Exemplary fusion of a CT scan with a histological slide. Representative images of a rat vertebrae by CT. (a) The plane of interest in the scan. (b) The fusion of the scans allows for the combination of specific histological features present in the stained tissue of the 2D section and (c) the global geometrical structure of the specimen found in the CT scan. The correlation was realized by superimposing both the estimated CT-plane (b) and the corresponding histological section (c).

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