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- From: weisen@daedalus.dcrt.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld)
- Subject: Re: Request for Human Skeleton
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.180708.2170@alw.nih.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:07:08 GMT
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- In article 11099@informix.com, proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
- >
- > Does my memory deceived me, or is it not the case that some place
- > like Colorado they are digitizing a complete human body by actually
- > cutting it into very thin slices (like 0.1 mm or something) and
- > scanning each one optically? Presumably it must have been treated
- > in some way to induce a kind of ultra rigor mortis ...
- >
- > These seems like a wonderfully macabre project, and I'd be interested
- > if anyone has more information about it.
- >
- > Paul
-
- Sorry if I'm attributing this to the wrong person, but I missed the
- original post.
-
- I remember reading about this a while ago. I think it was early to
- mid-80's in some geek magazine like Popular Science. They were just
- doing an arm then and they were slicing it with a normal deli slicer.
- I think that the ultra rigor mortis was called frozen :-). They were
- taking pictures of the slices, circling the important structures with
- colored markers, and scanning the pictures in. I guess that color
- scanner resolution wasn't that hot back then.
-
- I'm glad to hear that someone has moved on to the rest of the body, but
- the thought of slicing certain things makes me squeamish.
-
-
- --Neil
-
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