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X-rays film inside live flying insects – in 3D   

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Media release from Paul Scherrer Institut, 25 March 2014

Scientists have used a particle accelerator to obtain high-speed 3D X-ray visualizations of the flight muscles of flies. The team from Oxford University, Imperial College, and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed a groundbreaking new CT scanning technique at the PSI’s Swiss Light Source to allow them to film inside live flying insects. Their article, including 3D movies of the blowfly flight motor, is published March 25 in the open access journal PLOS Biology. The movies offer a glimpse into the inner workings of one of nature’s most complex mechanisms, showing that structural deformations are the key to understanding how a fly controls its wingbeat. Read more >>

[Français] Un film en 3D montre ce qui se passe à l’intérieur d’insectes en plein vol >>

[Deutsch] 3-D-Film zeigt das Innere fliegender Insekten >>

http://www.psi.ch/media/x-rays-film-insi ...

ctanguy, 2014-03-25 00:00:00
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