CT Scan Art
July 22nd 2009 15:53
Radiologist Kai-hung Fung makes beautiful and informative art from the CT (computed tomography) scans of his patients, digitally manipulating them to look more appealing.
This collection of images was orginally published in New Scientist.
This is the winning image of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The image looks upward through nasal passages from beneath the head. The bones, soft tissue and fat have been removed from the image, leaving just the cast of the sinuses.
This image looks directly down through the top of the head. The complex network of arteries and veins in the brain can be seen in shades of dark blue and the skull base is shown in green in the background.
This is a human skull. The red ring-like pattern is cancer of the thyroid which has become detached from the thyroid and deposited itself on the skull bone, shown as rainbow-coloured layers. The yellow area shows where the surgeons have cut open the skull. The cancer has caused the bones of the skull to expand.
The human heart from a vantage point at the left lower chamber, peeping upwards through the columns of papillary muscles.
This shows the inside of the nose. The nostrils are the dark area. The nasal septum is overlaid with radiating blue lines. The bones are shown in red.
The inside of a human ear canal. The two tiny bones hanging down the ear canal are shown in blue.
All images by Kai-hung Fung.
This collection of images was orginally published in New Scientist.
'What lies behind our nose?'
This is the winning image of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The image looks upward through nasal passages from beneath the head. The bones, soft tissue and fat have been removed from the image, leaving just the cast of the sinuses.
'Network'
This image looks directly down through the top of the head. The complex network of arteries and veins in the brain can be seen in shades of dark blue and the skull base is shown in green in the background.
'Spoke wheel'
This is a human skull. The red ring-like pattern is cancer of the thyroid which has become detached from the thyroid and deposited itself on the skull bone, shown as rainbow-coloured layers. The yellow area shows where the surgeons have cut open the skull. The cancer has caused the bones of the skull to expand.
'Within one's heart'
The human heart from a vantage point at the left lower chamber, peeping upwards through the columns of papillary muscles.
'Nose from the inside'
This shows the inside of the nose. The nostrils are the dark area. The nasal septum is overlaid with radiating blue lines. The bones are shown in red.
'Sound track'
The inside of a human ear canal. The two tiny bones hanging down the ear canal are shown in blue.
All images by Kai-hung Fung.
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Comment by Jason King
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The 2 nose ones kick butt.
Cool find Morgan.
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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the nose ones are fantastic hey, the top one looks like a tropical fish! lol
i find them personally interesting because i have always had sinus problems and had surgery on my nasal cavaties and septum
hi Tracy,
the colours are quite striking!
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my only suggestion would be contacting the National Science Foundation (the organisation who held the "visualisation" challenge)
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