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16 mind-blowing GIFs of everyday foods in an MRI scanner
THE WONDERS OF science can be both strange and hypnotising.
Andy Ellison, over on his blog Inside Insides, is an MRI technologist at Boston University Medical School, with the Centre for Biomedical Imaging. He runs a research-only Philips 3 Tesla MRI scanner and manually scans in things to capture the beautiful GIFs you see below.
It’s a glimpse inside objects we see everyday – and the results are fascinating.
1. Corn
2. Tomato
3. Garlic – axial
4. Garlic – coronal
5. Banana
6. Peach
7. Bamboo shoot
8. Strawberries
9. Horned melon – spin echo
10. Horned melon – sagittal
11. Onion
12. Pomegranate
13. Lettuce
14. Lily
15. Watermelon
16. Pineapple
All images reproduced with Andy Ellison’s full permission
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