Marco Reisert1, Matthias Weigel1,
Erez Eyal2, Dov Grobgeld2, Hadassa Degani2,
Jrgen Hennig1
1Medical Physics, University
Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden Wrttemberg, Germany; 2Biological
Regulation Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
The architecture of the ductal trees was first investigated by Sir Astley Cooper in 1840, using duct injection studies ex-vivo. Recently, computer derived tracking of whole-breast ductal trees has been achieved in few human breasts using mastectomy specimens. Studying the architecture of the entire ductal trees is very challenging and has not been achieved in vivo, yet.