Audi: Computer tomography used for Aluminium bodies - and Egyptian mummy

Once again: "Vorsprung durch Technik" from Audi.

Never before has any system been able to investigate vehicle bodies at Audi with such precision: with an accuracy in the micron range, in other words about one hundredth the width of a hair, a uniquely configured computer tomograph (CT) at Audi in Neckarsulm is capable of screening not only individual components, but - this is what makes it so special - entire vehicle bodies. The advantage of being able to examine objects without any contact and non-destructively meant that the CT system at Audi has also been used for an examination of a very special "patient": a mummified ibis, around 2,000 years old, from Abydos in Egypt, which was provided by the Hesse State Museum in Darmstadt.

Dr. Erwin Keefer, from the Württemberg State Museum, is thrilled with the first pictures of this rare object from antiquity: "This is the first time in Germany that a mummified object has been screened using an industrial CT system - the uniquely high-resolution pictures are a great help to us in our research".

Keefer regards the CT system at Audi as the most innovative method of investigating mummified objects. Until now, it has only been possible to obtain two-dimensional X-ray pictures; by contrast, the pictures taken by the CT system are 50 times sharper. They can consequently assist with the compiling of three-dimensional images that can be used to examine the mummified bird's feather stalks for mites or fleas.

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Source: Foursprung

Audi: Computer tomography used for Aluminium bodies - and Egyptian mummy

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