Prof. Dr. Matthias Ochs / Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy / MHH

Research report 2016

Cover image/animation:

The cover image/animation of the 2016 research report shows a three-dimensional reconstruction from inside the lung. The data set was created using the serial block face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM) technique. It consists of over 2000 individual images and shows a tissue block measuring 350 x 350 x 150 µm. It shows a segmentation of the walls of the alveoli, in which the uptake of oxygen from the air we breathe takes place (Ochs M, Knudsen L, Hegermann J, Wrede C, Grothausmann R, Mühlfeld C: Using electron microscopes to look into the lung. Histochem Cell Biol 2016;146:695-707).

The image was provided by Prof. Dr. Matthias Ochs, Director of the Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy and Co-Head of the Central Research Facility Electron Microscopy.