The MR-Bioreactor : Micro-MRI of thick living tissues to characterize 4-days old ex-ovo chick embryo morphology.

Thanks to their accessibility for experimental manipulations, their availability and their low cost, chick embryos have been used as animal models for developmental biology for long. In these applications, non-invasive 3D imaging of the embryos is needed to monitor the embryos development. Morphological characterization of ex-ovo chick embryo generally require tissue fixing which can alter MR characterizations. In this work, we use our MR-Bioreactor to perform a high resolution morphological characterization of a chick embryo maintained in living conditions.