Rat Inside A Python

Using a combination computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scientists Aarhus University in Denmark visualized the entire process python digesting a rat. The first image was taken an hour before the snakes' dinner and then at 2, 16, 24, 32, 48, 72 and 132 hours after the meal.
Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging method employing tomography created by computer processing. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image the inside an object from a large series two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis rotation.
CT produces a volume data which can be manipulated, through a process known as "windowing", in order to demonstrate various bodily structures based on their ability to block the X-ray beam. Although historically the images generated were in the axial or transverse plane, orthogonal to the long axis the body, modern scanners allow this volume data to be reformatted in various planes or even as volumetric (3D) representations structures. Although most common in medicine, CT is also used in other fields, such as nondestructive materials testing. Another example is archaeological uses such as imaging the contents sarcophagi or the DigiMorph project at the University Texas at Austin which uses a CT scanner to study biological and paleontological specimens.