Full Body MRI

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

I think it's a guy. (male)

Big boy!

That reminds me, gotta go pick up some steaks.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Wish you could pause it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Mmmmh, steak tonight.

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.

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

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

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

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.