CT scans become art


	CT scans become art
einbar
7-24-2009 9:46 AM
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7-27-2009 3:13 PM
mcsmithblack
Nice to know our "innards" are so artistic. I'll have to be nicer to mine.
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<H2>Futuristic Art : New Scientist Window on the body: CT scans 
become&nbsp;art</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/futuristic-art-new-scientist-window-on-the-body-ct-scans-become-art/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/k21st.wordpress.com/img/1785957A-4479-4957-BBC5-63DBF59D93C9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/futuristic-art-new-scientist-window-on-the-body-ct-scans-become-art/">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</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/futuristic-art-new-scientist-window-on-the-body-ct-scans-become-art/">See this and some of his more recent works in our gallery</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/futuristic-art-new-scientist-window-on-the-body-ct-scans-become-art/">This is the winning image of the 2007 International Science and Engineering 
Visualization Challenge. The original CT scan was taken from a 33-year-old 
Chinese woman who came in to have her thyroid examined</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/futuristic-art-new-scientist-window-on-the-body-ct-scans-become-art/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/k21st.wordpress.com/img/5626FA35-1492-4EA0-B47F-D7168669ECD2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/futuristic-art-new-scientist-window-on-the-body-ct-scans-become-art/">The human heart from a vantage point at the left lower chamber, peeping upwards 
through the columns of papillary muscles. This angle allows us to see the 
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