Virtual unwrapping of the BISPEGATA amulet, a multiple folded medieval lead amulet, by using neutron tomography.
In recent decades, computed tomography (CT) combined with suitable image processing software has become a valuable tool to enable the reading of texts written on scrolls, which are fragile, damaged, or fused together, without physically unwrapping them. X‐ray based computer tomography has successful...
| Publicado en: | Archaeometry Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 969 - 979 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2022
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