Case Study
High Resolution CT Scanning To Shed New Light On Human Evolution
Now the Palaeosciences Centre of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, is taking another, more in-depth look at the partial cranium and endocast using a Nikon Metrology microfocus X-ray CT (micro-CT) scanner. The idea is to see if the previous research conclusions can be corroborated using the much greater special resolution, typically 10 to 100 times that of a medical CT scanner. There are few such non-destructive, radi