University of Chicago

Contact Info:

Zhe-Xi Luo

https://luolab.uchicago.edu/paleoct/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_024763

Instrumentation:

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Relevant Publications:

1.) Grider‐Potter N, Nalley TK, Scott JE, McGechie F, Reda WH, Alemseged Z (2025 Jun 23). Occipital Condyle Development in Extant Hominids and Australopithecus afarensis American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 187(2), e70076. . PMCID: 12183541.

2.) Jamison-Todd S, Mannion PD, Upchurch P (2025 Jun 11). The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales Royal Society Open Science, 12(6), 250446. . PMCID: 12151596.

3.) Farrell HN, Schwartz R, Tsegai ZJ, Alemseged Z (2025 Mar 9). Locomotor signals in the trabecular structure of the hominoid clavicle Journal of Anatomy, 247(2), 284-303. . PMCID: 12265040.

4.) So C, Kufner AM, Pardo JD, Edwards CL, Price BR, Bevitt JJ, LeClair-Diaz A, St. Clair L, Mann J, Teran R, Lovelace DM (2024 Oct 30). Fossil amphibian offers insights into the interplay between monsoons and amphibian evolution in palaeoequatorial Late Triassic systems Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2033), 20241041. . PMCID: 11521612.

5.) Reinecke T, Angielczyk KD (2024 Oct 21). Raccoons Reveal Hidden Diversity in Trabecular Bone Development Integrative Organismal Biology, 6(1), obae038. . PMCID: 11495488.

6.) Wilken AT, Schultz JA, Luo ZX, Ross CF (2024 Sep 15). A new biomechanical model of the mammal jaw based on load path analysis. The Journal of experimental biology, 227(18), . . PMID: 39092673.

7.) Smith SM, Heaney LR, Angielczyk KD (2024 Apr 17). Small skeletons show size-specific scaling: an exploration of allometry in the mammalian lumbar spine Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2021), 20232868. . PMCID: 11021941.

8.) Jamison-Todd S, Mannion PD, Glover AG, Upchurch P (2024 Apr 10). New occurrences of the bone-eating worm Osedax from Late Cretaceous marine reptiles and implications for its biogeography and diversification Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2020), 20232830. . PMCID: 11003772.

Description:

Core utilizes dual tube micro X-ray computed tomography scanner for imaging specimens in fields of paleontology, comparative anatomy, evolution and development, basic biomedical studies, and research in geology and material sciences.It is equipped with 180 kV nano-focus and high power 240 kV micro-focus CT tube. This setup allows to scan very small specimens with high resolution using nano tube or dense fossils using high power tube.