These 3D X-rays are spectacular and really gross

There’s an image of a flayed human wrist wearing a watch that’s been making the rounds online. Generated by a new 3D CT scanner, the image shows bones, blood, tissue, and a faint shadow of skin around the edges. The image is amazing and also really, really gross.It’s not unusual for CT scans — a type of X-ray imaging that produces detailed views of whole cross-sections of the body — to be in 3D. The big difference is the degree of detail: the device that produced t