Holy x-ray, Batman
Images from the Wellcome Trust Image awards for 2014 have started making the rounds. I figured I’d jump in. The winner this year is a CT image of a chest with an artificial heart. It uses dual energy CT, which is worth a quick post (hopefully on Saturday). For now, here’s a lazy post of an x-ray of a bat.
If you missed it, I posted a microCT of a bat skull a while ago.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChadHaney/posts/LHNx1w56zpQ
For this image:
Its creator, Chris Thorn, explained: “The X-ray image was made using minimal kV exposure [low-energy X-rays] with a micro-focus system [to produce a high-resolution image]. Exposure parameters were deliberately controlled to allow the complete natural form to be imaged, and to suppress invasive examination of the torso and cranial region. The choice of photo paper and processing chemistry were selected to emphasize these characteristics. I hope my affinity with this magnificent creature is shared with the viewers, and that his sad demise might result in some greater appreciation of his kind. I just love those ears.”
See the rest here
http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/2014/plant-reproductive-parts
If you want to read more about what CT is.
Medical Imaging 101 pt 2: CT
#ScienceEveryday
oh how awesome!!!
Blacky Roach , #baturday came early.
I couldn’t wait Amber Petchey
Ahhh, I see now how the wings collapse and expand. What a wonderful web!
Blacky Roach, I’ll see if I have a microCT of the wings too.
It’s awesome!
Blacky Roach all the more amazing because their classification in Chiroptera was way before the biologists had access to beautiful X-Ray images like this one!
Thanks Kimberly Chapman I hope it’s Peo approved.
Indeed it is more impressive in that context Rajini Rao
Peo is having a fricktastic tantrum right now so she’s just lost her own computer privileges for the rest of spring break. That means I can’t let her see stuff on mine either or she’ll try to weasel around the grounding. But it probably would’ve been otherwise because she’s keen on the whole way that bat wings are different from pterosaur wings and this x-ray really highlights that.
Maybe I’ll remember to show it to her in the distant future…
Sorry to hear about the tantrum Kimberly Chapman. It’s worse when adults have a tantrum. At least Peo is still a kid.
I was fascinated with bats when I was around 13…. I remember my exercise book had tons of sketches of bats, trying to make it as accurate as possible.
SciFi Author: Lacerant Plainer bats are fascinating.
Too cold for bats here.
Chad Haney Come visit Austin some time. We’ve got lots of bats. 2 MILLION BATS Austin Texas
I posted more bat pictures.
I did.
Wow looking good