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Contact: Jan Zverina
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University of California - San Diego
Caption: CT scans are composed of a 3D stack of data ‘slices’. This image of a chimpanzee skull shows one slab or a subset of slices, displayed as a virtual cut-away out of the complete data set. Digitally manipulating CT scans in this manner allows researchers worldwide to perform analyses without ever handling or possibly degrading the actual physical specimen.
Credit: Source: John L. Moreland, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego.
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