Enhanced perfusion following exposure to radiotherapy: A theoretical investigation
Fig 2
Representative vascular architectures from our experiments [15].
A single dose of 15 Gy X-rays was delivered to a tumour and changes to its vascular structure were monitored over the course of 4 days (reproduced from [50]). In the top row, endothelial cells are in cyan, while perfused vessels (qDot705) are in red. Every panel is a 2D representation of a 3D image in the form of a Z-stack approximately 300 μm tall. The depth of field for a single Z-slice was 2 μm. The middle and the bottom row show images of endothelial cells and perfused vessels, respectively. The scale bar corresponds to 100 μm.