Pictured are, from the left, Paleontologist Kim Holrah;Technologist Jared Sieren; George El-Khoury, M.D.; and John Haller, Ph.D.; as they examine some of the T-Rex bones that were scanned on the research-dedicated CT scanner under Hoffman's direction.	A new look at some old bones   Radiology News: Week of May 14, 2001 Over the past few weeks, scientists in the University of Iowa Department of Radiology have been making CT scans of a "65-million-year-old patient." The patient, a one-of-a-kind juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex, was discovered in South Dakota by Kim Holrah of Iowa. The bones were initially scanned while still surrounded by soil "jackets" removed from the earth. Researchers Eric Hoffman, John Haller, Ge Wang, Joe Reinhardt and others have been digitally extracting the bones from the soil in an effort to reconstruct a "cyberdinosaur" from the digital images and assist paleontologists in cleaning and assembling the bones. Holrah, the paleontologist who discovered "Tinker" the juvenile T-Rex, suggested that the dinosaur may have had a bone disease that could have been associated with its untimely death. A UI orthopaedic radiologist, George El-Khoury, M.D. was asked to examine the bones and CT images.
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