Inner View
August 27th, 2008 by misvan
by inVivo via Flickr
Archive for the 'Medical Imaging' Category
Breathtaking Medical Photography of Lennart Nilsson
June 10th, 2008 by misvan
19 weeks
16 weeks
A macrophage extends a pseudopod toward an already multiplying bacteria.
The egg and the sperm
The fallopian tube
Lennart Nilsson, Swedish photographer and scientist, started his career as a photojournalist in the mid-1940s photographing prominent actors, politicians, and royal family as they went about their daily lives. Life as a photojournalist, however, was a stark contrast to capturing the intricate beauty of the human body, which is what Nilsson is so well known for today.
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The Medical Anomalies you Won’t Find in Any Textbook
May 22nd, 2008 by misvan
Sore knee
I give you my heart.
I’m afraid that the CAT scan is positive!
Anatomically evolved feet?
Lung lovers
Two hands are better than one!
Via Worth 1000 a daily photo manipulation contest site with cash prizes and an extensive gallery. The rules for this contest were to take any x-ray, sonagram, model, skeleton or other medical diagnostic tool and use it to create a medical hoax.
Be sure to take a look through the other 7 medical anomaly galleries on their site, a lot of the manipulations are actually well done.
This man walked around with a paintbrush in his head for 6 hours
May 21st, 2008 by misvan
When in the hand of a skilled artist, a paintbrush can be used to create beauty. But in the hands of an angry assailant, it can be shoved violently into a person’s brain.
According to a case report in the European Journal of Neurosurgery, a 49 year-old Native American male presented to the emergency room complaining of soreness in the left cheek and eye area after being hit in the face 6 hours earlier by an assailant.
A physical examination only showed a 5m cut below his left eye with some periorbital edema, but a CT scan showed a cylindrical foreign body coursing from the left orbit to the right thalamus.
Under general anesthesia an incision was made near the man’s eyelid. The surgeon searched around and then carefully pulled out the proximal end of what appeared to be a wooden object.
The wooden object turned out to be a 10.5cm–long paintbrush, shoved in bristles first!
Amazingly the patient was discharged neurologically and ophthamologically intact.
Lesson: never criticize a sensitive artist.
[Source: Mandat, T. S., Honey, D. A. & Sharma, B. R. (2005) Artistic Assault: an unusual penetrating head injury reported as a trivial facial trauma. Acta Neurochir. 147: 331-333.]
