I know this scan data has been used a million times (doesn't make it any less wonderful though) but I'm posting this regardless: it was brilliant for me to learn alShaders just by fiddling around, and so im really quite proud of it. Also damn that displacement map is good.
This was created atleast in part by following this tutorial (although alot of tweaking and playing around with parameters went into it): http://www.anderslanglands.com/alshaders/tut_skin1.html