This is my PhD-Thesis, typeset with LaTeX based on the classicthesis theme by André Miede.

The progress of writing the thesis was tracked using SVN and has been migrated to GitHub for safe-keeping after I finished my work at the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Bern in Switzerland.

The thesis contains four parts:

1. Introduction

• An overview over the mammalian lung development
• An explanation of the most important concepts in computed tomography and an overview of the TOMCAT beamline at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland

2. Publications (which were re-typeset from their original sources for integration into the thesis)

• A proceeding written for the 9th International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy in Zürich, Switzerland
• A paper published in the Journal of Applied Physiology
• A paper published in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation.

3. Discussion and Outlook
4. Back Matter

• Curriculum Vitae
• Bibliography
• necessary documents for the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences.

A low resolution PDF of the final result is available here (3.4 MB).