For Yous Data - Lab 3-D Scans Human Skeletal Remains Dating Dorsum To The American Civil War

In the Virtual Curation Laboratory, the lab's director, Bernard Means, Ph.D., is belongings a realistic-looking 3-D printed replica of a human skull fragment that was dented past times a bomb explosion during the Civil War.

VCU professor Bernard Means, Ph.D., displays a 3-D printed replica of a skeletal mitt alongside a bullet hole that
is role of the collection of the National Museum of Health as well as Medicine [Credit: Brian McNeill/VCU]

"For the balance of this person's life, they had seizures because of the [injury]," Means said. "In fact, they died because they barbarous into H2O during a seizure as well as they drowned."

Means 3-D scanned the skull fragment during a recent catch to the National Museum of Health as well as Medicine equally role of an understanding alongside the museum to 3-D scan items, primarily historic os specimens, from the Civil War through World War I.

The museum, located inward Silver Spring, Maryland, was established during the Civil War equally the Army Medical Museum, a middle for the collection of specimens for inquiry inward armed services medicine as well as surgery.

VCU's Virtual Curation Laboratory specializes inward the 3-D scanning as well as 3-D printing of historic as well as archaeological objects, as well as is role of the School of World Studies inward the College of Humanities as well as Sciences.

VCU's Virtual Curation Laboratory has 3-D scanned as well as 3-D printed a reveal of specimens from the National
Museum of Health as well as Medicine's collection, including a mummified ear attached to skull fragment
 that was donated inward the early on 1900s [Credit: Brian McNeill/VCU]

So far, Means as well as his students convey scanned as well as printed replicas of roughly thirty items inward the museum's collection.

Among the highlights are a leg os that healed poorly subsequently beingness shot during the Civil War, a skull alongside a hole inward it from a Civil War surgeon's trepanation procedure, a mummified ear attached to a skull fragment that was donated inward the early on 1900s, as well as a slow 19th-century skeletal mitt alongside a bullet hole from an expanse inward the Midwest designated for Native American resettlement. None of the remains beingness 3-D scanned is Native American.

"In the National Museum of Health as well as Medicine's collection, they convey pathological specimens of people who were injured inward combat, going dorsum to the Civil War. Some of whom survived, some of whom did not," Means said. "It is i of the best collections of battlefield trauma specimens inward the world."

By 3-D scanning items at the museum, the Virtual Curation Laboratory is aiming to brand the collection to a greater extent than accessible to researchers as well as the public.

"They desire to teach 3-D scans of items inward their collection as well as they desire to teach them out in that place as well as hence Blue Planet tin flame run into them as well as besides as well as hence that researchers tin flame access them," Means said.

Isabel Griffin, a senior communication arts major as well as Virtual Curation Laboratory manager,
paints a 3-D-printed replica of a os fragment from the collection of the National
Museum of Health as well as Medicine [Credit: Brian McNeill/VCU]

For world programs, 3-D printed replicas allow visitors such equally schoolhouse groups to teach a to a greater extent than hands-on sense alongside a museum's collection, he said.

"If a schoolhouse grouping visits, [the museum] can't top around human skeletal remains," he said. "But they tin flame top around 3-D printed replicas."

The collection is of item involvement to researchers focused on the history of battlefield trauma, equally good equally forensic anthropology.

Terrie Simmons-Ehrhardt, a researcher inward the Department of Forensic Science who studies forensic anthropology, specifically inward forensic craniofacial identification as well as 3-D osteology, has been collaborating alongside Means on 3-D scanning os specimens alongside a destination of creating a digital forensic osteology collection that would live accessible to anyone doing forensic inquiry or education.

"I am assisting Bernard alongside the surface scanning of NMHM osteological specimens as well as besides assisting the museum alongside processing of micro-CT as well as CT scans of some specimens," Simmons-Ehrhardt said. "We are generating high-resolution 3-D models to live shared online that tin flame live interacted alongside either online or inward 3-D software, equally good equally 3-D printed."

Author: Brian Mcneill | Source: Virginia Commonwealth University [November 01, 2018]


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