#computer tomography

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Ancient Herculaneum scrolls are now readable due to AI technology, scientists say | CNN

Using AI and computer tomography, researchers have pulled one word from the indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls, which were bur

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Fairy lights and decomposing multi-dimensional datasets

Many years ago, I had a poster that I bought when I visited North Cape in Norway where in summer the sun never sets.  The poster was a time-series of 24 photographs taken at hourly intervals showing the height of the sun in the sky during a summer day at North Cape, similar to the thumbnail.  We can plot the height of the sun as a function of time of day with time on the horizontal axis and…

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CT scans can also be used to guide procedures such as surgery, biopsy, and radiation. In addition, the patient can have the x ray images on a compact disk to take to another physician or hospital.

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BURMESE PYTHON EATS RAT BURMESE PYTHON DIGESTS RAT Noninvasive Imaging Technology Shows Animal Guts

Science is inherently cool, but gross science is even better.

Using a combination of computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists Kasper Hansen and Henrik Lauridsen of Aarhus University in Denmark were able to visualize the entire internal organ structures and vascular systems (aka “guts”) of a Burmese Python digesting a rat.

A Burmese Python was scanned before ingesting a rat

and then at 2, 16, 24, 32, 48, 72 and 132 hours afterwards.

The succession of images reveals a gradual disappearance of the rat’s body,

with an overall expansion of the snake’s intestine,

shrinking of the gallbladder

and a 25 percent increase in heart volume.

(via Asylum.com)

While no pythons were harmed in making this series of images, the same cannot be said about rats. We might take a moment to think about how rats have made great sacrifices to bring our understanding of the biological sciences to where it is today.

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CT reconstruction images of a Red Fox skull. Sometimes I love my job, yes.