X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology or XROMM is a scientific research technique. Scientists use it to create 3D images and videos of moving skeletal systems in living organisms.[1]

In XROMM, radio-opaque bone markers are implanted inside a living organism, which allows the X-ray video system to calculate accurate bone marker coordinates as the organism moves.

XROMM was invented at Brown University.[1][2]

XROMM can be used to model such movements as birds in flight, humans running, frogs jumping, and a toad swallowing its prey.[3][4]

Original description

  • Brainerd, E.L., S.M. Gatesy, D.B. Baier, T.L. Hedrick, K.A. Metzger, J. Crisco, and S.L. Gilbert (2010). "X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM): applications and accuracy in comparative biomechanics research". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References

  1. 1 2 "X-Ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM) Facility". Brown University. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  2. ↑ "History". Xromm.org. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  3. ↑ Florida Museum of Natural History (November 15, 2022). "A hard pillbug to swallow: First X-rays of frog feeding show how they consume prey" (Press release). Eurekalert. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  4. ↑ R M Keeffe; R W Blob; D C Blackburn; C J Mayerl (November 15, 2022). "XROMM Analysis of Feeding Mechanics in Toads: Interactions of the Tongue, Hyoid, and Pectoral Girdle". Integrative Organismal Biology. 4 (1). doi:10.1093/iob/obac045. PMC 9665897. Retrieved November 15, 2022.


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