“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.”