CT scans of modern Homo sapiens

 As part of my dissertation research, I CT scanned a total of 705 humans in the anthropology department at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Half of the sample consists of humans from the Point Hope, Alaska, collection at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, which were transported to Washington, DC, for scanning.
     The entire skull of each individual (or just the cranium if an associated mandible was not available) was CT scanned using a Siemens Somatom spiral scanner (70 µA, 110 kV, table height 215, slice width 1.0 mm, reconstruction 0.5 mm). This represented the highest resolution possible on the scanner at the time of scanning. The specimens had to be scanned in two parts to allow the scanner to cool down halfway through scanning. Most image viewing software, including free packages like OsiriX and ImageJ, can relatively easily stitch the two halves of the scan together to allow viewing and analysis of the entire specimen.
     The humans included in this sample came from archaeological sites in Alaska, Greenland, Oceania, and the Terry Collection, a cadaver-based collection from the United States. A list of all specimens scanned is available here. Zipped files including all scans of individuals from each locality are available by clicking the links below. Each link will take you to a folder that contains several zipped files, each of which contains 30-40 individual scans. When I zipped the folders with all specimens from a locality, the file sizes were too big for some to download, so I broke them up into smaller files. The total file size for all scans from one locality is given below. Files were zipped using the 7zip open source software, and can be unzipped by most free zipping programs.
​     If you use these scans or data acquired from them in published material, please acknowledge the museums and cite Copes (2012). I also have scans of some associated postcrania for some of the individuals from the Terry Collection, available upon request. For more information about the scans, please email me. Links to these expire every few months, so if you get an error message, just email me and I'll update them!

AMNH Point Hope, AK (n=397; zipped file is ~34 GB)
NMNH Greenland (n=70; zipped file is ~6.4 GB)
NMNH Oceania (n=133; zipped file is ~13 GB)
NMNH Terry Collection (n=105; zipped file is ~11.5 GB)

Copes LE, 2012. Comparative and Experimental Investigations of Cranial Robusticity in Mid-Pleistocene Hominins. Ph.D Dissertation, Anthropology, Arizona State University.