CT scan imaging of antiques, museum pieces, archaeological artefacts and artwork

Insurance of Objects

We are not insured for the items scanned since we do not specifically ask owners the value of their objects prior to scanning for confidentiality. We are therefore unable to insure for damage or loss.

If you would like insurance for your objects prior to scanning, please contact us and we would be happy to direct you to suitable specialist insurance companies.

Dinosaur bone CT scan and 3D printing

A radiology team in Berlin have successfully CT scanned and 3D printed a replica of an ancient dinosaur bone stored at the Museum für Natuurkunde (Museum of Natural History), Berlin, Germany, having been encased and preserved in plaster. Between 1909 and 1913, two German palaeontologists, commissioned by the museum, led an excavation that yielded approximately 235 […]

Antique xray – 2D images with some limitations

Traditionally, museums have assessed antiquities and museum pieces with conventional xrays. This produces a 2D image of the object only (like a medical xray of a bone), which may be adequate in some circumstances but clearly fails to capture the 3D nature and layer-by-layer internal structure of an object. Therefore an antique xray may be an […]

CT scan investigation of fakes, forgeries and copies of antiquities

The high resolution, high contrast nature of CT imaging is ideal for the assessment of the internal structure of artefacts. Where conventional x-rays can only produce a 2D image, the sequential ‘slices’ through an item with CT, produce an internal 3D reconstruction. CT is extremely useful for identifying the inner density of materials which can help […]

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