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siftbotsays...Moving this video to kronosposeidon's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
bamdrewsays...Woah, you are way wrong here; this is not a series of CT scans, this is stepping through sections of a cadaver frozen in ice for the 'The Visible Human Project'.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
bamdrewsays...... and according to the wikipedia site this is the cadaver of "Joseph Paul Jernigan, a 38-year-old Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1993"... thats pretty wild, because prisoners are a protected population when it comes to research (not unlike children).
Thylansays...CT scans are cool (it took one to finally diagnose the cancer I am now free from) but this isn't one. It is still cool though.
CT info:
A CT (computerised tomography) scanner is a special kind of X-ray machine. Instead of sending out a single X-ray through your body as with ordinary X-rays, several beams are sent simultaneously from different angles.
How does a CT scanner work?
The X-rays from the beams are detected after they have passed through the body and their strength is measured.
Beams that have passed through less dense tissue such as the lungs will be stronger, whereas beams that have passed through denser tissue such as bone will be weaker.
A computer can use this information to work out the relative density of the tissues examined. Each set of measurements made by the scanner is, in effect, a cross-section through the body.
The computer processes the results, displaying them as a two-dimensional picture shown on a monitor. The technique of CT scanning was developed by the British inventor Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work.
From http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/examinations/ctgeneral.htm
Thylansays...I assume this is a world wide issiue. somewhat realted.
Isotope shortage may delay scans
siftbotsays...Tags for this video have been changed from 'head to toe, visible human project' to 'head to toe, visible human project, anatomy, axial section, human, body' - edited by mauz15
demon_ixsays...*health *quality
This is a better quality non-upside-down embed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWP2HnPSMyo
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by demon_ix.
Adding video to channels (Health) - requested by demon_ix.
westysays...He sure dose have a tiny penis must be the cold
TheFreaksays...Anyone else have a craving for ham after watching that?
chicchoreasays...*dead
siftbotsays...This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by chicchorea.
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