newVideoPlayer("xrayFade_gawker.flv", 520, 410); You asked for it and here it is: exclusive videos of the CTX Imaging system we showed you yesterday. Here you can see a pig eating in slow motion, starting with the x-ray movie alone and then superimposing the 3D skull.
CTX Imaging is a unique method that uses computed-tomography with high-speed cinefluoroscopic video (1,000fps) and x-rays to create extremely accurate captures of skeletons in very fast motion. We talked with Dr. Elizabeth Brainerd, from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University, who explains this open project after the jump.
[All videos by E.L. Brainerd, K. Metzger and D.B. Baier]
Dr. Elizabeth Brainerd and her colleagues in the vertebrate morphology group at Brown University have just developed CTX Imaging, a technique that combines computed-tomography, x-ray video and computing post-processing to let you see bones in rapid motion. Like Mr. Crocodile here doing the Jane Fonda on the treadmill. The process and the results are quite stunning, as you will see in the images after the jump.
