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Microfocus roentgenography in modern palaeopathological research

Buzhilova A.P. (1), Dobrovol’skaya M.V. (2), Mednikova M.B. (2)

1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia; 2) Institute Archaeology Russian Academy of Sciences, Dm. Ulyanova 19, Moscow, 117036, Russia

Buzhilova Alexandra P., Ph.D., D.Sc., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6398-2177, e-mail: albu_pa@mail.ru; Dobrovol’skaya Mariya Vsevolodovna, Ph.D., D.Sc., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9695-4199, e-mail: mk_pa@mail.ru; Mednikova Maria B, Ph.D., D.Sc. , ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1918-2161, e-mail: medma_pa@mail.ru

Abstract

As a nondestructive radiographic method, microfocus images became an important tool for analyzing of archeological samples and as such, they should become a regular component of evaluation of pathological cases. There are no practical limits in the distance between the focal spot and the x-ray detector plane in case of microfocus roentgenography. The images, produced with this technique, have no area of reduced image resolution as found in traditional radiological studies. The authors present some results of application of the microfocus x-ray method in palaeopathology. The cases studied include examples of inflammatory processes after skull’s trauma, a case of metabolic disorder (Hyperostosis frontalis interna), and the pattern of metastasis.

Keywords

palaeoanthropology, palaeopathology, microfocus x-ray method

Цит.: Buzhilova A.P., Dobrovol’skaya M.V., Mednikova M.B. Microfocus roentgenography in modern palaeopathological research // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2009; 2/2009; с. 65-74