Dr. Elizabeth Brainerd and her colleagues in the vertebrate morphology group at Brown University have just break CTX Imaging , a technique that combine computed - tomography , x - ray video and computing mail service - processing to allow you see bones in speedy motion . Like Mr. Crocodile here doing the Jane Fonda on the treadmill . The process and the results are quite stunning , as you will see in the images after the jump .
First , they do a complete imaging scan on the subject , which gets stored in the information processing system to get fuse with “ mellow - pep pill fluoroscopy ” footage of the animal in movement . That generates a highly detailed 3-D electronic computer animated theoretical account that can be seen from any slant . So detailed that it can fascinate 1,000 framing per arcsecond with a precision of a tenth of a millimetre .
According to Dr. Brainerd , this allows you “ to canvas many aspects of skeletal kinematics , such as long axis revolution of bones , putative bending of okay bones in small animals , and the comparative 3D motions of the articulary surfaces of joints ” for the first sentence ever .
Image credits : D.B. Baier for the Alligator and S.M. Gatesy for the bird .
Down to the bone[Popsci ]
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