今日看到了CT應用在Mummified Monk的研究,讓我回想起曾經短暫待過故宮博物院的研究,說是研究也不算是,主要是協助建立起國內第一台古文物研究用的3D-CT,當時主要都是在進行X-Ray CMOS的資料截取與重建(有點類似咬文嚼字的“逆向工程”),還有將測量平台/X-Ray radiator/ CMOS的整合)。
離開故宮已快兩年,幾次在一些會議上與故宮的朋友聯繫得知,當初留下來的系統雖不完美,但在整體上還是持續的協助老師的研究可以持續地進行,就覺得自己那四個月躲在圖書館研究資料分析是有價值的了(包含偶而的偷閒閱讀)~期待故宮的古文物科學研究實驗室可以越來越強大與發表更多有趣的研究結果~
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/02/23/x-rays-buddhist-statue-mummified-monk/#.VoZticB9401
內文節錄:
It’s not surprising that Southeast Asia is home to countless ancient Buddha statues, but when one of those statues contains a mummified monk, that iscertainly a surprise.
A mummified monk is exactly what researchers at the Netherland’s Meander Medical Center found when they placed a 1,000-year-old Chinese Buddha statue inside a CT scanner. Researchers believe the statue contains the body of a Buddhist master named Liuquan, who may have practiced the tradition of “self-mummification” to reach his final resting place.