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OCT Imaging of the Embryonic Heart

Top view (ventral) of a beating stage 14 quial heart

Additional movies:

Rotating Cutaway
Beating and rotating heart inside the embryonic volume of stage 14 quail. A cut-away operation is performed as the heart beats to enable visualization of internal structures.

2D Orthogonal Slices
Beating 2D slices from different orthogonal orientations of a stage 14 quail heart. Along the top row are three different 2D slices sagittal to the body of the embryo. The 3D reconstruction to the right shows the location of the three slices as planes cutting through the heart. The planes from top to bottom correspond to the images starting from the left and moving right. The middle row represents three 2D slices cut coronal to the body of the embryo. The 3D reconstruction of the heart to the right marks the left to right images as planes going from front to back in the image. The bottom row shows three 2D slices of the heart cut transverse to the body of the embryo. The 3D reconstruction to the right marks the left to right images as planes going from left to right in the image.