Computerized axial tomography scan, better known as CAT scan, is an imaging technique which combines data from several X-ray scans taken from different angles in order to produce a detailed image of structures inside the body. And then there’s the cat scan, where you put a cat on a scanner and, well, scan it. We do the former for medical purposes, and the latter to alleviate boredom, and possibly for research purposes.
If you have a scanner and a cat at home, and if you have nothing worthwhile to do, then try scanning your cat, just like these people did. Check out the pictures of these cat scans over at Sad and Useless.
(Image Credit: Sad and Useless)
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There was a website called "catscan" in the mid 90's (when the internet was not - quite - as cat-photo-powered as it is these days) that was devoted to this. There were many questions at the time as to potential danger to the cats (less of an issue with LED based scanners in use now)
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the heck
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The cat owners will be cleaning cat hair off their scanners for weeks, if not longer. ;^ }
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