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Dinosaur CSI? The Leonardo Project


The Leroy V. Good Library (Brighton Campus) is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a lecture Friday, November 7, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Steve Mango, Worldwide Technical Manager for Nondestructive Technology at Carestream Health, will be speaking on “Computed Radiography and Dinosaur CSI: The Leonardo Project.” The lecture will be held on the fourth floor of the library, outside of room 2-452.

For paleontologists of the Judith River Dinosaur Institute,  NDT (nondestructive technology) digital x-ray technology has played a major role in their ability to analyze, in non-invasive ways, a 77 million-year-old mummified dinosaur named Leonardo (the “best-preserved fossil in the world” according to the Guinness Book of World Records). Steve Mango directs the Leonardo Project, in which a team of experts from Carestream Health uses state-of-the-art computed radiography systems to produce detailed images of Leonardo, including the dinosaur’s stomach and last meal. Come hear all about the Leonardo Project and the exciting technology developed by Kodak, the Kodak Industrex ACR 2000i Digital System, which allowed the researchers unprecedented access to the ancient remains.

If you have any questions, please contact Lori Annesi, Reference/Special Collections Librarian, <
mailto:lannesi@monroecc.edu>.

Lori Annesi
MCC Libraries
10/30/2008