Thesis defense: Exploring Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques for Characterizing Soft Knee Tissues

Edvin Tobias Bokvist Wrammerfors defends his thesis "Exploring Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques for Characterizing Soft Knee Tissues". 

Link to thesis i LU Research Portal.

Osteoarthritis-induced damages can be studied using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or histology. However, MRI can introduce noise, and histology is only two-dimensional. Edvin examined three alternative imaging methods; synchrotron phase-contrast tomography, neutron tomography, and quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS), with the aim to study three-dimensional  distribution of cells, protein matrix density, and water diffusivity within tissues as well as potential changes induced by OA-related degeneration.