I found this huge dead cockroach by the TEM. The only logical course of action was to CT scan it.

Grosssss

I mounted it on a dentist’s pick. Ewwwwwwwww

This is what the X-rays looked like. I used 40kV/55W with 500ms exposure and 4 frame averaging, for a total of 1588 projections.

Here’s an artistic interpretation of a cockroach X-ray as depicted by the CT reconstruction software by David Goligorksy: