Bones in motion: Scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system

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Shown are three frames from an X-ray video of a pigeon flying in a wind tunnel. Under a new medical and scientific imaging system being built at Brown University these frames will come to life in a high-speed animation that shows bones moving in 3-D. ...
Shown are three frames from an X-ray video of a pigeon flying in a wind tunnel. Under a new medical and scientific imaging system being built at Brown University, these frames will come to life in a high-speed animation that shows bones moving in 3-D. Credit: Stephen Gatesy/Brown University

Brown University researchers are creating a technology that will allow doctors and scientists to do the seemingly impossible: See inside living humans and animals and watch their bones move in 3-D as they run, fly, jump, swim and slither.


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