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Down to the Bone

A new medical-imaging system brings skeletons to life in 3-D

For most of us, the phrase "super x-ray vision" conjures a pair of spiral-print cardboard spectacles ordered from the back of a cereal box. But now an imaging system developed at Brown University delivers the real thing, combining computed-tomography (CT) scanners, x-ray video and computer software to give doctors and researchers a three-dimensional look at bones in motion.

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