Skeletal System
Boning-Up
Using skeletal bones for the determination of height and sex. This part of the laboratory exercise can be done in the classroom. The necessary directions and references may be supplied by your teacher or they can be found at the following site.
The second part of this exercise makes use of a measurement exercise called ImageJ. Here you will be using an angle measurement tool to do sex determinations on several X-ray examples.
Animal Hands
Using ImageJ to examine a number of X-rays from different animal examples to determine their structure and function. Animal Hands.
Bone Development
An examination of bone density using an ImageJ technique known as Density Slicing. A normal lumbar bone density example is compared with an osetoporotic x-ray. Bone Development