Micro-CT scan of sea star showing the skeleton (grey), digestive system (yellow), nervous system (blue), muscles (red) and water vascular system (purple). Credit: University of Southampton Micro ...
Rorqual whales use a Russian-doll-like structure to protect nerve tissue during lunge dives, according to new research by University of British Columbia researchers. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...
The University of Michigan’s Research Museums Center celebrated its 10,000th CT scan Friday by imaging a campus icon - the skull of a wolverine. Researchers chose the skull from the center’s ...
FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise. The vaquita, meaning ...
Cutting-edge technology in a lab at Florida Atlantic University was used to digitize the skeleton of the rarest marine mammal in the world, a porpoise called the vaquita, ensuring that the animal ...
where scans are several times faster (to obtain the same or better image quality) compared to micro-CT systems with a fixed source-detector design. For any sample, which can be up to 75mm in ...
These aren’t the X-Rays like those of broken bones you’re (hopefully not too) used to seeing though, they’re Computed Tomography scans (CT scans, CAT scans), in effect just 3D X-Rays.