CT Scanner Captures Entire Woolly Mammoth Tusk (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

CT Scanner Captures Entire Woolly Mammoth Tusk

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Images in tusk of the woolly mammoth. (A) Volume-rendering reconstruction shows the dentin conal structure of a mammoth tusk for age determination. (B) Illustration of the dentin conal structure of a mammoth tusk. (C) Curved-planar reconstruction CT image centered in the tusk, with orange lines representing the level of perpendicular sections corresponding to images D–F. (D–F) Cross sections of CT images show concentric fissures in the dentin, with (E) mild artifact in the most peripheral scan field.

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