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Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of mummified corpses
Author(s) -
Piepenbrink H.,
Frahm J.,
Haase A.,
Matthaei D.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330700107
Subject(s) - magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance , materials science , medicine , radiology , physics
Clinical applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging have demonstrated its great potential for noninvasive examinations of soft tissues. Here preliminary experiments are reported on mummified human tissue by means of NMR cross‐sectional and transmission imaging. For this purpose the natural viscosity of the tissues has been lowered by rehydration with an aqueous solution of 20% acetone.