Morphogenesis of the mammalian aortic arch arteries

AmiraMesh datasets of mouse and human fetuses.

Mouse fetuses (collected in accordance with UK Home Office Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986) were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde and scanned by magnetic resonance imaging.

Human fetuses were obtained from the MRC/Wellcome-Trust funded Human Developmental Biology Resource maintained at Newcastle University (www.hdbr.org), and processed for micro-CT imaging.

Data were opened in Amira Imaging software and saved as AmiraMesh files. These files were segemented to produce the three-dimensional images shown in the paper.