Mystery Science Theater: Researchers Used Medical Tech To Unwrap Ancient Mummies
Revelling in the Revolution CT: specialists speak
Doctor, switch off the scanner and pass the popcorn
The dog and the CAT scan
His luck continued to point upwards when vets gently sedated him for an examination in their brand new CT scanner, which uses multiple X-ray “slices” to build up a detailed image.
History
When This 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Finally Got Her Checkup, Doctors Discovered A Surprising Secret
In 1909, a New York businessman named Samuel Brown traveled to Egypt to purchase a pair of ancient mummies for the Albany Institute of History and Art, where he served as a board member. Brown and generations of subsequent researchers believed that he brought home a female mummy dating from the 21st Dynasty and a male one from the Ptolemaic period.
But when Emory University Egyptologist Peter Lacovara visited the institute in the early 2000s, he felt that the female mummy wasn’t in the coffin in which she was originally buried. Maybe it wasn’t a mummy of a woman at all.
Precision Medicine
New Nuclear Scanner Gives Doctors An Inside View Of The Body
For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer Hal Anger invented the gamma camera and doctors were able to see what was going on inside of cells.
