X-Message-Number: 3348 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 18:42:33 -0400 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> Subject: CRYONICS: Re: Brain scanning, reply to Yvan Bozzonetti > Assume vaporization is permitted. Can the information be extracted > under that condition, or does the vapor generated absorb most of the > image beam? That might work. X-rays don't really care whether they're imaging a solid, liquid, gas, or superheated plasma. The trick would be to apply all of the energy before the resulting superheated plasma has time to spread out by so much as our sub-micron resolution limit. An x-ray pulse of one nanosecond or less ought to do it. I've seen this discussed before. I don't recall if it was on this list. Good luck finding volunteers. Personally, I'll wait for the non- destructive backup. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3348