Technical note: Terahertz imaging of ancient mummies and bone

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-500

  Öhrström, Lena ^a   Bitzer, Andreas ^b,c   Walther, Markus ^b   Rühli, Frank Jakobus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal; Egypt; Human; Morphology; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EGYPT; FISH; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SOFT TISSUE; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; VERTEBRA; X RAY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; FISHES; HAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MUMMIES; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SPINE; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77953482814     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21292     Document Type: Article

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