Carestream Health has donated a computed radiography (CR) system that enables The Field Museum—for the first time—to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless specimens and artifacts in its Anthropology collection. The Field Museum is also using a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) from Carestream Health for the management, viewing and storage of the growing collection of digital images managed by the museum’s staff.
“The availability of this advanced x-ray system will have tremendous benefits not only for research, but also for management of our collections,” said Robert D. Martin, the A. Watson Armour III Curator of Biological Anthropology at The Field Museum. “Non-invasive visualization of specimens and artifacts can yield valuable new scientific information, and it can also provide crucial indications for proper conservation of specimens in our care.”
Images of an ancient Egyptian mummy demonstrate how digital images are superior to film images. Recently captured digital images have revealed a previously unknown erosion of the parietal lobes in the mummy’s skull.
See the above page for the full story, with a photograph of the mummy skull concerned.
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