InnoCT - Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL)

The tissue clearing technique aims to make tissue transparent by minimizing light scattering and light absorption, thereby enabling deep imaging of large volume samples. This technique can produce a fine and detailed image of an organ or cell, in order to provide comprehensive information about the biological system of the organ or cell as a whole. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) or bronchoalveolar washing is a procedure performed during bronchoscopy. BAL is used to collect a sample from the lungs, the sample will be used for testing. During this procedure, a saline solution is passed through the bronchoscope to wash the airways and take a sample of the fluid.