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Paul Lockwood1, James Elliott, Andrew Nelson2
1School of Allied and Public Health Professions, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK.
Abstract:
CT scanning techniques used in head and facial bones examination in the clinical environment can also be transferable to the imaging of post-mortem cases as a novel non-destructive and non-invasive investigation in forensic cases. We describe a study of the head and facial bones of a 2700-year-old Egyptian mummy. Cross-sectional investigation can lead to discovering unknown information of skeletal and soft tissue structures and anatomy to contribute to the knowledge of preserved mummified remains and the practice of palaeoradiology.
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