What is X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology?
'''X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology''', or '''XROMM''', is a scientific research technique. Scientists use XROMM to make 3D movies of animals' bones while they are still alive.<ref name=Brown>{{cite web|url=https://biomedcorefacilities.brown.edu/xromm-facility|publisher=Brown University|accessdate=November 15, 2022|title=X-Ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM) Facility}}</ref> In XROMM, a surgeon puts radio-opaque bone markers inside the animal's body. Then an X-ray video system can tell exactly where the markers are. This helps the scientists make very good videos of how the bones move. Scientists at [[Brown University]] invented XROMM in 2010.<ref name=Brown /><ref name=XR>{{cite web|url=https://www.xromm.org/history/|accessdate=November 15, 2022|publisher=Xromm.org|title=History}}</ref> XROMM can be used to show birds in flight, humans running, frogs jumping, and a toad swallowing crickets.<ref name=ToadPR>{{cite press release |url = https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/971359 |title = A hard pillbug to swallow: First X-rays of frog feeding show how they consume prey |author = Florida Museum of Natural History |publisher = Eurekalert |date = November 15, 2022 |accessdate = November 15, 2022 }}</ref><ref name=ToadJ>{{cite journal |url = https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/4/1/obac045/6769806 |title = XROMM Analysis of Feeding Mechanics in Toads: Interactions of the Tongue, Hyoid, and Pectoral Girdle |author1 = R M Keeffe|author2= R W Blob|author3= D C Blackburn|author4= C J Mayerl |journal = Integrative Organismal Biology|volume=4|issue=1 |date = November 15, 2022 |accessdate=November 15, 2022 |doi= 10.1093/iob/obac045 }}</ref> ==First paper== *{{cite journal|author1=Brainerd, E.L., S.M. Gatesy, D.B. Baier, T.L. Hedrick, K.A. Metzger, J. Crisco, and S.L. Gilbert |year=2010|title= X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM): applications and accuracy in comparative biomechanics research.}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{technology-stub}} [[Ca