3D rendering and printing

Computed tomography, or CT, is a scanning technology that uses X-rays to create images of the inside of an object; it is widely used in hospitals for diagnosing internal injuries and diseases. CT is a powerful technique, which is capable of producing images cheaply and quickly, usually without causing any damage to the original sample. This means that it has many applications outside of hospitals, including the study of fossils in amber(i.e. modern palaeontology). Medical scanners use low-energy X-rays and short exposure times to reduce the amount of radiation a patient receives, but non-medical (industrial) CT is not restricted in this way (when applied to inanimate objects like fossils). Therefore, such systems can penetrate dense layers of amber and generate very high-resolution images, resolving details less than one-hundredth of a millimetre in size. CT scans can be reconstructed into 3d objects and here at AAKZ we offer STL, NRRD and UVF files, we may start offering DICOMS too for all our vertebrate fossils. If you cannot see the fossil or file format you require listed here please feel free to contact us.