A palaeobiologist's guide to 'virtual' micro-CT preparation

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Abel, Richard Leslie ^a,b   Laurini, Carolina Rettondini ^c   Richter, Martha ^b  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fossil shark tooth; Micro CT scan; Segmentation and virtual preparation; X ray microtomography

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; FOSSIL RECORD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; SHARK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TOOTH;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 84873417334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26879/284     Document Type: Article

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