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What have the Earths' Mantle & an Egyptian Mummy in Common?
This paper will start with an overview of the Manchester Visualization Centre (MVC), what we do, why we do it and who we do it to. The main elements of the paper will be to present four examples of our work: Visualization of Egyptian Mummy 1766, one of the Egyptian mummies belonging to the University Museum. We will explain what we did with the CT scan of this mummy, the special techniques that...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cardiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0914-5087
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2014.10.007