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Human Organ Atlas HUB (HOAHub)

HOAHub aims to create a physical and virtual Hub which uses HiP-CT to scan whole human organs with local cellular resolution, producing a "Human Organ Atlas in Health, Ageing and Disease".

It will:

  1. Bridge clinical imaging (radiology, millimetre scale) to molecular modalities (nanometre scale), providing unprecedented insights into our bodies in health, ageing and disease, helping cure or mitigate diseases from neuro-degeneration to musculoskeletal disorders to cancer.

  2. Bring together interdisciplinary groups to produce the novel experimental and computational technologies needed to analyse and interpret the scale-bridging data.

  3. Enable the clinical impact of synchrotron imaging to be realised, by transforming HiP-CT into an efficient tool (from autopsy to beamtime to quantification).

  4. Advance biological, computational and medical fields.

  5. Provide anatomical training resources and a new Gold Standard for validating CT, MRI and 3D histology, inspiring a new generation of techniques and real-world clinical insights.

HOAHub consists of 7 interdisciplinary working groups to further develop the HiP-CT technique, address biological and biomedical challenges and propagate the technique to a wider community via training.

Full details are available on the HOAHub official website.

The HOAHub uses the High-Throughput Large Field Phase-Contrast Tomography Beamline BM18.

For details, see this page of the HOAHub official website.

For details, see this page of the official HOAHub website.

HUB Obligations

For details, see this page of the HOAHub official website (link to be provided when available).

ESRF Obligations

As a partner of the HOAHub, when using beamtime at the ESRF you agree to follow the standard ESRF rules (safety, sample declaration, GDPR, travel rules, data policy, ...).

Useful links:

ESRF user policies and rules

ESRF publications