[olePigeon]

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68416,00.html

Check out the photogallery. They used some new scanning technology and disected a 2,000-year-old mummy virtually. I thought the results were incredible. I don't know if this stuff is safe for humans (while they're still alive) but being able to layer the scanning results like that is awesome.

[analogika]

wow.

just - wow.

[Cadaver]

The tech is available with most modern CT scanners used on people. Slices of about 0.5 mm are easy to achieve (without massive doses of radiation), and 3D work like that can be done fairly easily (I'm a radiologist, and I do things like that daily).




The main difference between the mummy and (living) people is you can decrease the slice-thickness of each image (which makes the reconstructed images look better) by increasing the radiation dose. Don't like to do that to people... too much.

[Salty]

What? Oh I imagine they get all pissy if you fry their liver eh?

[angelmb]

SGI has this on its homepage (sgi.com), info here