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In a pilot project, we have explored a non-destructive synchrotron imaging technique for the 3D visualization of intracerebral tissue transplants in a well-established small animal model of Huntington\u2019s disease. Four adult female Sprague Dawley rats each received injections of 0.12 M quinolinic acid (QA) into two target positions in the left striatum, thus creating unilateral left-sided striatal lesions similar to those frequently seen in patients suffering from Huntington\u2019s disease. One week after lesioning, the animals received transplants prepared from whole ganglionic eminences (wGEs) obtained from 13- to 14-day-old rat embryos. Of the four lesioned animals, three received transplants of GNP-loaded cells and one animal received a transplant of na\u00efve cells, serving as control. Post-mortem synchrotron-based microCT was used to obtain images of the neurotransplants. The images obtained of GNP-loaded tissue transplants at the synchrotron corresponded in size and shape to the histological images of transplants developed from na\u00efve cells. 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