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- Scientists Use 'naked Scanners' To Probe Mummies
The Local German scientists have found a less controversial use for the “naked body scanners” being rolled out at European airports – investigating ancient Egyptian mummies. The high-frequency “terahertz” scanners can scan fragile mummies in...
- Interview: Five Questions To The Mummy Doctor
Discovery Magazine Pathologist Frank Rühli scaled back his medical practice in 2005 to pursue an obsession with mummies. Since then he has used advanced imaging to perform autopsies on the long-dead and has played a key role in investigating the mysterious...
- X-rays Of Tutankhamun
Egytpian Gazette N.B. The URL on this page will expire in the next few days. A look at the results of X-Rays of the mummified body of Tutankhamun. How can you look into a mummy without unwrapping the linen (a risky operation that could lead to ruining...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...
- Mummy Scan Wins 2006 Science And Engineering Visualization Challenge Award
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2006/The Challenge is intended to celebrate and encourage the visualization of research. First place in the photography category was a phtograph of the scan of a child mummy from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum: "An...
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More re Terahertz imaging to view mummies
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Preserved bodies help doctors understand diseases that have plagued humans for thousands of years
Back in 2005, when Frank Ruhli was trying to figure out how ancient Egypt's famous boy pharaoh, King Tut, died, he used CT scans of Tut's mummified remains. Now, says the renowned mummy expert, the new technology to screen some airline passengers for explosives can provide even more information.
"By applying this technology on top of another technology, it may help you to look differently at the specimen," he explains, adding that the Terahertz imaging - also known as "full body scan" technology - does not use any sort of radiation, which could destroy DNA remnants of the mummies.
"And finally, by using this Terahertz imaging, you eventually may be able to look at the substances within the mummy, for example, the embalming liquid used in the Egyptian way of embalming. There you can actually do sort of substance analysis which you can't really do by conventional x-ray."
- Scientists Use 'naked Scanners' To Probe Mummies
The Local German scientists have found a less controversial use for the “naked body scanners” being rolled out at European airports – investigating ancient Egyptian mummies. The high-frequency “terahertz” scanners can scan fragile mummies in...
- Interview: Five Questions To The Mummy Doctor
Discovery Magazine Pathologist Frank Rühli scaled back his medical practice in 2005 to pursue an obsession with mummies. Since then he has used advanced imaging to perform autopsies on the long-dead and has played a key role in investigating the mysterious...
- X-rays Of Tutankhamun
Egytpian Gazette N.B. The URL on this page will expire in the next few days. A look at the results of X-Rays of the mummified body of Tutankhamun. How can you look into a mummy without unwrapping the linen (a risky operation that could lead to ruining...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...
- Mummy Scan Wins 2006 Science And Engineering Visualization Challenge Award
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2006/The Challenge is intended to celebrate and encourage the visualization of research. First place in the photography category was a phtograph of the scan of a child mummy from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum: "An...