Computed Tomography Scanning and Three-Dimensional Visualization of Mummies and Bog Bodies

Advances in Human Palaeopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-119

  Lynnerup, Niels ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3D visualization; CT scanning; Internal structure; Pathological lesions; Soft tissue; X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882415121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470724187.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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