Totally Unique POTM

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I don't know if this really qualifies as a photo, but let me see what you guys think:

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It's from a CT scan of my deceased clown knife. Definitely doesn't fit with the spirit of the no modification rules for POTM, but it might be able to escape on awesomeness grounds.

The animal died of natural causes and was subsequently imaged post mortem. This satisfies all research animal use and ethics concerns. The visualization used is called a MIP (maximum intensity projection) and is commonly used for display of 3D volumes as 2D images.

I'd be happy to answer questions you might have.
 
that would be a cool avatar.
 
forget a bichir, imagine if there was a way of getting one of a ray, but they have cartilage instead of bones... or you should try and get one of a wolf fish or a piranha, something with wicked teeth. besides that, your pix should so be given a pass to be potm!
 
Experiment397;5152050;5152050 said:
forget a bichir, imagine if there was a way of getting one of a ray, but they have cartilage instead of bones... or you should try and get one of a wolf fish or a piranha, something with wicked teeth. besides that, your pix should so be given a pass to be potm!
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A ray's cartilage would likely show up nicely. The problem is that you wouldn't get such a good visualization so simply because of the size. You'd end up having to curl the animal. Not that it couldn't be done, it would just be much more difficult.

These devices are very expensive to design and build and end up having two sizes because those are the most scientifically useful. Rat/mouse size (scientific) and human size (clinical). Using one for the other doesn't really work too well. Taking an x-ray like at a doctors office wouldn't be as impressive either.

The specimen needs to fit in a tube about 10 cm in radius to work. Flat is much better.
 
you might try the lfs's mine is constantly ordering rays to hve them arive doa. you might find a baby ray that showed up doa...it would be sad, but the awesome factor would over rule over the sadness.
 
Very cool
 
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