microfocus computed-tomography scanner (Micro CT scanner)

微聚焦计算机断层扫描（Micro CT）极大地改变了我们对生物结构的理解，并彻底改变了形态学研究。基于x线的骨结构评估在医学CT中的应用早已建立。然而，目前，由于微型CT仪器的不断进步，染色技术的发展和完善，以及交互式和（半）自动化图像分析和可视化的进步，我们见证了基于x射线的技术在各种生物（软）组织分析中的爆炸性扩展。有了这个应用程序，几个工作组的目标是在HU柏林获得最先进的微型CT扫描仪，以收获这些进步，并确保洪堡研究人员在比较解剖学和功能形态学的前沿地位。我们的目标是利用微型CT成像来研究现代生物进化、生理、发育和行为现象的形态学基础。

Microfocus computed-tomography (Micro CT) dramatically alters our understanding of biological structures and revolutionized morphological research. The X-ray based assessment of bony structures in medical CT applications has long been established. Currently, however, we witness an explosive extension of X-ray based techniques to the analysis of all kinds of biological (soft) tissues as a result of constant advances in Micro CT instrumentation, development and refinement of staining techniques, and progress in interactive and (semi-)automated image analysis and visualization. With this application, several workgroups aim to acquire a state of the art Micro CT scanner at the HU Berlin to harvest such advances and secure a position of Humboldt researchers at the forefront of comparative anatomy and functional morphology. It is our goal to use Micro CT imaging to investigate the morphological basis of a broad range of evolutionary, physiological, developmental, and behavioural phenomena central to modern organismal biology.