Paleontographer

A Paleontographer is anyone who uses medical imaging technology to scan fossils; mainly using CT scanning or any non-invasive scanning technology. Sean Mclain Brown, a journalist with the Sierra Madre Mountain News, first coined the term in the Sierra Madre Mountain News (Volume Two, Issue 30) in February 1999.

The use of medical CT scanning technology allows scientists to use a non-invasive method to examine fossils or rock specimens from other planets without resorting to "acid etching" or "hammer and chisel relief."

Inventor/Software engineer Lee Schiel of Early Response Imaging and Doctors Michael Smith and John Nesson of Arcadia Methodist Hospital were the first pioneers of this field in the late 1990s.