Oldest Person Scanned at Stanford by Dr. Fahrig

to construct three-dimensional images of his skeleton to learn more about the mummy's life and death.

To acquire more information about the mummy's amulets, a second scanning procedure was completed at Stanford Medicine Imaging Center, Palo Alto, (SMIC) with a dual-energy CT scanner that differentiates between different materials. Through these scans, scientists hope to learn more about the substances used in the mummification process as well as in the composition of the amulets.

The mummy has been a resident of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco since 1917 and will be part of an upcoming show at the Legion of Honor Museum in an exhibition entitled, "Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine," which opens on Oct. 31, 2009. This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the cooperation of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium, Stanford Radiology, and Stanford Medicine Imaging Center. Additional project assistance has been provided by the Stanford Division of Anatomy, eHuman Inc., and Fovia Inc. To read more about the mummy, please access "The Mummy Speaks: Detailed Scans at Stanford Help Reveal the Secrets of an Ancient Egyptian Priest" and "Mummy to Be Scanned at Stanford at Aug. 20."

This is Dr. Fahrig's second time scanning a mummy. In 2005, she led the team who scanned a 2,000-year-old mummy of a four- or five-year old girl (nicknamed Sherit, or "little one") from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. To read more about Dr. Fahrig's work, please access "Radiologists as Artists: Critics Love Mummy Scans"; "Mummy's Inner Secrets Revealed"; "The Latest in X-Rays: A 'Mummogram'?"; and "It's a Girl: Digital Unwrapping Reveals a Little Mummy's Secrets."