There’s an image of a flayed human wrist wearing a watch that’s been making the rounds online. Generated by a new 3D CT scanner, the image shows bones, blood, tissue, and a faint shadow of skin around the edges. The image is amazing and also really, really gross.
It’s not unusual for CT scans — a type of X-ray imaging that produces detailed views of whole cross-sections of the body — to be in 3D. The big difference is the degree of detail: the device that produced this gory image is part of a new wave of spectral scanners that use specialized detectors to distinguish individual X-ray frequencies. That gives researchers better contrast between the matter the X-rays passed through, like bone, or flesh, or blood.
The weird wrist picture...
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