Dr. Fahrig's Mummy Scans Featured in SF Museum

(Image courtesy of Mark Riesenberger)

State-of-the-art CT scans taken by Dr. Rebecca Fahrig are featured in the exhibit "Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine" at the Legion of Honor, one of the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco. Her scans were used in constructing a three-dimensional "fly through" movie of the anatomy of the 2,500-year-old mummy of the Egyptian Priest Iret-net Hor-irw. Chris Beaulieu, MD, PhD, chief of musculoskeletal imaging in the Department of Radiology, also lent his expertise in determining the anatomy of the mummy's musculoskeletal structure.

According to a recent article in Stanford Medicine News, "Stanford Scans of Mummy to be Featured in San Francisco Museum Exhibition," visitors will
be able to watch "visual navigations through the mummy’s anatomy, zooming in to inspect what remains of his internal organ systems and then swooping back out through the wrappings. It’s even possible to see objects, such as small amulets, buried with the mummy and hidden from view since its burial."