Emma Sherratt - Evolutionary Biologist
  • About Me
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  • Quantitative Morphology Group
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  • x-ray micro CT
  • Caecilians
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X-ray micro computed tomography (x-ray µCT or micro-CT) is a non-destructive imaging technique, using x-ray energy to create volumetric reconstructions of a specimen. This technique makes available a large amount of material from museum spirit collections for comparative studies of relatively rare and uncommon creatures.

Most of my research involves using CT to examine morphological variation in animals.
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Schematic of the X-Ray CT process. 
I scan several individuals simultaneously, increasing the productivity of the scan process.
Here, three caecilian heads are aligned for scanning.

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Another way to scan several individuals simultaneously. 
Here five lizards are aligned. 


Scanning projects past and present

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Egyptian Bird Mummys
For the Semitic Museum, Harvard University
Cambridge MA

www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu



PictureImage courtesy of Richie Abel
Caecilian Amphibians

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Anole lizards in Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic and Chiapas, Mexico. 

Images of the Mexican Amber can be found here 



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My preference for processing CT data is VGStudio MAX

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