Micro-CT Scans Reveal the Bladder Isn’t Just a Simple Balloon

The long-standing biomechanical idealization of the bladder as a sphere with uniformly thick walls is called into question by this study. The researchers created accurate three-dimensional (3D) models of three rat bladders in both their void and filled states using high-resolution micro-CT imaging at resolutions of 10–20 micrometers. The findings show that the thickness of the emptied bladder is quite irregular, with the mid-bladder and trigonal regions being the thinnest and the dome the thickest.