“Took me a couple of goes, but I see it now. Still euww though. Please can you post some actual porn to take the image out of my mind.” That’s our favorite comment, from a Guardian reader, about this first-ever MRI video of human sexual organs while those organs were in use. The video was a spin-off […]
Tag: MRI
Sopranos – the mystery continues
The first scientific study to employ real-time magnetic resonance imaging (RT) MRI to obtain midsagittal vocal tract sequential image data from a total of 5 soprano singers is published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2010 (Express Letters pp. EL335-EL341) Click the framegrab at right to view (and hear) the resulting […]
Heads Up: Snakes in your MRI tube
A simple experiment: put a person in a tube. Add a snake. Details are reported in the study [and click on the image here to see the video that accompanies the study]: “Fear Thou Not: Activity of Frontal and Temporal Circuits in Moments of Real-Life Courage,” Uri Nili, Hagar Goldberg, Abraham Weizman and Yadin Dudai, […]
Beeswax and a hairy MRI image
A 2004 study called “Magnetic Susceptibility Artifacts on MRI: A Hairy Situation” includes this image, with the description: “15-year-old boy with acute sinusitis and subdural empyemas. Gadolinium-enhanced … images show left subdural empyema and image distortion from susceptibility artifacts caused by iron oxide particles suspended in beeswax dressing in patient’s hair.”
Million watchers of sex-in-an-MRI
More than a million have viewed the 3-minute video of Dr. Pek Van Andel and his Ig Nobel Prize-winning study of people having sex in an MRI machine. (And note: Dr. Van Andel demonstrated his findings on the the Ig Nobel Tour of Scandinavia last month.)
Jesus in a lung
Images from a thoracic spine examination by Christopher Vittore and Kevin Tribble, radiologists in Rockford, Ilinois and clinical assistant professors at University of Illinois College of Medicine. MRI technologist, Deb Savala assisted with the technical data. This was performed on an open MRI machine, a General Electric Signa 0.35 Tesla MRI scanner. (Details: 40 x […]
To make love as a testee
What of love inside an MRI machine? Ida Sabelis discourses in her acceptance speech for the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine: In the autumn of 1991 Pek (M.V. van Andel) phoned my partner Jupp. Whenever he does that, he mostly has something special on his mind. The point was to visualize with a modern […]