Ostrich head and skull - horizontal CT scan slices @witmerlab

Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Older movie made in 2008 depicting CT scan slices in the horizontal plane of the head of Struthio camelus (OUVC 10491). The head was scanned at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital on a GE LightSpeed Ultra Multislice CT scanner. Rendered using Amira and QuickTime by Ryan Ridgely. For more on alligators and dinosaur airheads, including PDFs of and other content from the 2008 Witmer & Ridgely article, visit bit.ly/96QCa3 . Visit https://people.ohio.edu/witmerl/3D_ostrich.htm for more content on the Visible Interactive Ostrich. Visit our Facebook page for more content like this: facebook.com/witmerlab.

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