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.
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.]
May 9th, 2008 by misvan
Someone get this tattooed on top of their head—seriously—I want to start a medical imaging tattoo gallery.
[by sga1120 via Flicker]
May 6th, 2008 by misvan
Are you familiar with the images on the Adobe CS2 boxes?
Have you ever wondered how they were created or who made them?
I always thought they were created through the magic of a master Photoshoper or Illustrator’er. But no.
The delicate images of feathers, leaves, flowers, and shells are actually x-rays created by one of the top x-ray photographers of our time, Nick Veasey.
But Nick Veasey isn’t the only x-ray photographer out there. There are actually quite a few people involved in the unique field. CultCase put together a fascinating post detailing the work of these x-ray photographers from the past to the present.
See it here >> X-Ray Photography as Art: Hidden Faces of The Inner Space
Thanks to one of my readers for sending me the link!
March 13th, 2008 by misvan
From the Wellcome Image Awards:
This pair of images demonstrates how a disease-causing strain of E. coli bacteria brings about diarrhoea by breaking down the waterproof barriers between the cells.
First of all the bacteria, seen as small red dots, attach to the surface of intestinal cells, making tiny pedestals out of one of the cell’s own proteins (bright green). Once attached, the bacteria send signals into the cells, causing the tight junctions (blue) between the cells to break down. Water is then able to seep out between the cells into the intestine, leading to diarrhoea.
The image on the top shows an early stage in the process where the tight junctions are still intact and show as continuous blue lines between the cells. The image on the bottom is taken later in the process, once the tight junctions have broken down. Their remnants appear as blue dots.
-image by Stephanie Schuller
These elegant micrographs are winners of the 2008 Wellcome Image Awards. View the rest of the winners in their image award gallery.
[via Biomedicine on Display]
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