Stanford University School of Medicine researchers used the AXIOM Siemens C-arm scanner to capture many thousands of 2D image slices and to obtain information about an ancient Egyptian child mummy. The slices are much smaller than the 750-micron slices generated during the virtual unveiling of King Tutankhamen. Currently 92GB of scan data from the mummy of the child Sherit are being captured so that scientists can learn more about the cause of her death. As the first phase of the investigation is completed, the second phase requires advanced machinery and software to reproduce Sherit in 3D reality. This is because multiple 2D CT slices can never allow you to understand a subjects dental condition as quickly or as accurately as a quality 3-D visualization, says Paul Brown, DDS of the Stanford-NASA National Biocomputation Center. With the slices captured with AXIOM, the Stanford radiology experts were able to create 3D imagery to complete the picture. Components used included an advanced Silicon Graphics Prism visualization platform with Intel Itanium 2 processors, blends forces with the real-time ray tracking abilities of VGL software from Volume Graphics of Germany. The scientists learned Sherit's age at death (between four and five and a half years of age). Scientist obtained information about her life and death. For instance, they found that her body was squeezed at burial to the point that her hips were forced out of alignment, her spine was compressed, and her head and neck tilted downward. The physicians think she perished from an intestinal disease or another childhood disease.