University of Chicago Medicine perform CT scans on Chicago's Field Museum's SUE the T Rex arms - WLS-TV

CHICAGO (WLS) -- University of Chicago Medicine treating what has to beryllium the infirmary system's largest diligent ever.

Doctors determination performed a CT scan connected the close limb of Sue the T-Rex Wednesday.

It's portion of a survey by the Field Museum to larn however T. Rex's usage their famously abbreviated arms.

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It's not the archetypal clip the UChicago Medicine's radiology squad has worked with the Field Museum connected CT scans of dinosaur fossils, but Sue is surely their astir celebrated "patient."

The scans volition beryllium utilized to make integer models showing scope of question and force.

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