Full Body MRI

1. plumshums
   September 21st, 2009 at 11:52 am

   awesuum possummm~ which reminds me...house season premiere is on...tonight woo hoos!

2. Loomis
   September 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pm

   I think it's a guy. (male)

3. Skipweasel
   September 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm

   Big boy!

4. Kate D
   September 21st, 2009 at 12:14 pm

   That reminds me, gotta go pick up some steaks.

   Buddy looks like he should hit the gym. Look at the marbling!

5. Miss Cellania
   September 21st, 2009 at 12:14 pm

   OK, after watching this for a while, I wonder... has anyone here ever had a full-body MRI? Do they have you hold your arms up somewhat? See, this guy's fingertips disappear before his genitals appear! Having arms that short would make taking a leak really difficult. Or am I overthinking this?

6. RB
   September 21st, 2009 at 12:33 pm

   This isn't a simple MRI scan that anyone can have done I'm afraid. The reality is a bit more morbid. The images you see are called a "color cryosection" for project "Visible Human" in which a donated body was frozen in gelatin, sliced and scanned.

   "In August of 1991 NLM awarded a contract to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center to create the digital cross-sections of a 39-year old convicted murderer who had donated his body to science. The radiological data was created using commercial MRI and XRAY-CT. Two CT data sets were created: one of the fresh cadaver, the other after the cadaver was frozen. Then, the cadaver was embedded in gelatin, frozen and sliced from head to toe. As each layer was exposed, a color RGB photograph was taken. Over 1800 24-bit images 2048 by 1216 were created."

   Full articles here:
   http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/vm/

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project

   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

7. Skipweasel
   September 21st, 2009 at 12:41 pm

   His upper arms are by his side, but bent at the elbows over his ample belly.
   Mind, I shouldn't call the pot (belly) fat.

8. Michael Wendell
   September 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm

   I don't think this is an MRI. I've seen this before, and if I'm correct, these are actually photographs taken of a body as it was sliced. It's called the Visible Human Project, and the body (deceased, obviously) was encased in ice during the process.

   Here's a link... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

9. mikerbaker
   September 21st, 2009 at 1:10 pm

   Yeah, I logged in to say the same thing Michael Wendell said above. Not an MRI. Saw this 10 years ago.

   I've had MRIs and PET scans from head to thighs. My arms were over my head. I imagine it depends on what they want to see.

10. Woogie
    September 21st, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    Can't help but get hungry when you see the legs. They look like joints of beef.

11. A
    September 21st, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    Wow, this animated gif is as old as the internets. Blast from the past.

12. Adi
    September 21st, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Wish you could pause it.

13. leegreen
    September 21st, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    these images are from the visible body project (link provided by mr. wendell above. "go ahead mr wendel"). street anatomy blog has an interesting history of the project. we used the images to study for our anatomy class in medschool all the time. its kind of weird knowing the sordid story of whose body they came from.

14. leegreen
    September 21st, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    sorry. i forgot the link.
    http://streetanatomy.com/2007/04/12/the-visible-human…prisoner/

15. Tim Giachetti
    September 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    The body in question was/is the body of a convicted murderer. Upon execution his body was frozen and slices like gyros meat.
    PBS had a special on it.

16. jcastaneda15
    September 21st, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    "excuse me sir.....um....i can see ur junk..."

17. DrDigg
    September 21st, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Need to correct the update. Those images are just 1mm slices through a frozen cadaver. Not mri or ct scan.

18. Miss Cellania
    September 21st, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Are you sure? The Visible Body website said that's what they used.

19. Sarah
    September 21st, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    I remember this. At SC'95 we had a 6' tall display screen which displayed volume slices head to foot ( front to back ) "life size".

    It was disturbing. Like watching Oscar Meyer walk through a portal.

20. dank
    September 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 am

    I also remember watching this on PBS. If i remember correctly, He only had one ball...

21. Lasse
    September 22nd, 2009 at 1:31 am

    Mmmmh, steak tonight.

22. Skipweasel
    September 22nd, 2009 at 3:24 am

    If you want to pause it, you can save the animated gif and break it apart using this bit of freeware...

    http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gifsplitter.html

    then browse through the individual slices at your delicatessen. Er - convenience.

23. Skipweasel
    September 22nd, 2009 at 5:42 am

    Or, if you can't work out how to do that, you can pick up the slices here...
    http://www.skipweasel.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/slices.zip

24. Ant Dude
    September 22nd, 2009 at 8:59 am

    There are animated MRI scans of couples having sex too. Crazy!

25. jazzman
    September 22nd, 2009 at 9:24 am

    I used to get this guys slides as quizzes in anatomy in med school. Never missed a VH dissector question.

26. That Guy From That Place That One Time
    September 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    Back when I was in school, about 8 years ago, I used the images from 'The Visual human' project to re-create a 3-D model of the man. Trace the skin, extrude a spline, repeat using the next slide. Made a pretty complex looking 3-D mesh. Fun project, now I'm wanting to go dig it up out of my archives and look at it again.

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