Peek into the glowing microvascular system of a pigeon’s head in this stunning x-ray image

Originally published at: Peek into the glowing microvascular system of a pigeon’s head in this stunning x-ray image - Boing Boing

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From Popkin!

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The story says it’s a CT scan, not an X-ray. The headline could use an edit.

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Punk band? Au contraire. That fantastic pic deserves to adorn only the harshest of German techno.

the glowing microvascular system of a pigeon’s head

Obscure 70s British rural prog rock track, surely. Probably a band from somewhere in East Anglia who paid to record their own LP with one 22 minute track per side.

Isn’t a CT scan a type of x-ray? Just a fancy moving one with a computer attached.

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I was involved in a project to use volume renders of a patients own body to help doctors communicate better with their patients. It didn’t go anywhere for various reasons but I had quite a lot of fun making images similar to this one. Trying to get a decent image out of noisy data was tricky as was trying to provide some context (one blood vessel looks very much like another if you don’t know what you’re looking at).

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