Using high-energy X-rays emitted by a special type of particle accelerator, scientists have intricately captured the damage caused by COVID-19 to the lungs’ smallest blood vessels.
Due to this intense brilliance, researchers can view blood vessels five microns in diameter (a tenth of the diameter of a hair) in an intact human lung. A clinical CT scan only resolves blood vessels that are about 100 times larger, around 1mm in diameter.
By combining our molecular methods with the HiP-CT multiscale imaging in lungs affected by COVID-19 pneumonia they understood the impact it has on oxygen levels in our circulatory system
