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Brian Metscher

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But contact me for advice on how to prepare, stain, mount, or image anything interesting!

The main papers:

Metscher, B. D. (2009)
MicroCT for comparative morphology: simple staining methods allow high-contrast 3D imaging of diverse non-mineralized tissues.
BMC Physiology, 9, 11.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6793/9/11

Metscher, B. D. (2009)
MicroCT for developmental biology: A versatile tool for high-contrast 3D imaging at histological resolutions.
Developmental Dynamics, 238(3), 632-640.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.21857/full

Metscher, B. D. (2011)
X-ray microtomographic imaging of intact vertebrate embryos.
Cold Spring Harbor protocols, 2011(12), 1462-1471.
http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/2011/12/pdb.prot067033.full

Metscher, B. D., & Müller, G. B. (2011)
MicroCT for Molecular Imaging: Quantitative Visualization of Complete 3D Distributions of Gene Products in Embryonic Limbs.
Developmental Dynamics, 240(10), 2301-2308.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.22733/abstract