Micro-CT anatomical study of the female of an aquatic beetle

Micro-CT study of the female of an aquatic beetle (Insect: Coleoptera) of the genus Dryops. Scanned with a Skyscan-1172 microtomograph (www.skyscan.be) at the Department of Zoology, University of Granada. Spain, by Prof. Dr. Javier Alba-Tercedor. For details see paper: "Volume rendering reconstructions of the anatomy of small aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) scanned with the Skyscan 1172 high resolution micro-CT"
http://www.skyscan.be/company/UM2012/...
Another view in what the external wall (exoskeleton) was removed by software can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwMJk...
More videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/albatercedor
The video recording and final volume rendering was performed with the CTVox, one of the software freely provided by Skyscan, and computed by Stephan Boons

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[Seiai]

I loved the video! Thanks for the upload. The paper had some helpful cites as well.

I've just started using the Skyscan 1172 in my lab for summer research. How do you actually reconstruct the images to form a 3D image?

[Javier Alba-Tercedor]

To be able to reconstruct the images and perfom the final volume rendering reconstruction I used the free provided Skyscan software in the following sequence order: NRecon, Dataviewer (to orient properly the sample), CTan (to "clean" the moise of the images) and finally the 3D volume rendering and movies were done with CTVox.

[rndstuff123]

What is the name of the music used in this video?

[Javier Alba-Tercedor]

The music title is: "Maid with the Flaxen Hair", and the author: Claude Debussy. It comes as a sample music with Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise.

[Javier Alba-Tercedor]

Animals, like every living being never can be machines. No matter what we can imagine from our anthropocentric view points!.

[lceus]

Next up is a human version, right?

[Javier Alba-Tercedor]

Of course!, however with the Skyscan-1172 the size of teh sample to reconstruct is less than 10 cm. Thereafter the problem should be to put a human body inside to scan(?).

In any case medical doctor are doing it pretty well. I work only with little animals

[soppdrake]

Wonderful results of your work of mapping the internal organs of insects. Your software tweek seems to be very useful! Well done, indeed!

[Jade Hoye]

Amazing!

[Basram]

lol civ 5 music

[Javier Alba-Tercedor]

I'm glad you like it. Thanks for your comment