In the last years, the research toward novel biomaterials both for orthopaedic and dental applications, has been receiving growing attention driven by the requirement to improve both the healing behaviour of tissues around implants and the quality of life in patients. Bone repair/regeneration is usually investigated through x-ray computed microtomography (mCT) supported by histology of extracted samples, to analyse biomaterial structure and new bone formation process. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mMRI) shows a richer tissue contrast than mCT, despite at lower resolution, and could be combined with mCT in the perspective of conducting non-destructive 3D investigations of bone.
Multimodal3D developed a new pipeline combining different tomographic images to obtain a new fused 3D meta-structure of bone micromorphology.