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The Facts are

1- All radiologists love images

2- There is art in all the images we review

How do we find the art in Anatomy and Radiology ?

We just have to look at our images from a different perspective

 

Purpose of the Presentation

• • provide another perspective of looking at radiological images
  • to demonstrate techniques of creating art from radiological images
• Why?
  • to enable other Radiologists to find the art in the images with which they spend so much time,
  • to enable Radiologists who are not “artists” to  create artistic renderings.
  • because
    • creativity is crucial for a fulfilling life, and therefore
    • an essential component of wellness.

Native Image Obstructed Biliary Tree

Seasons of Biliary Bonsai

Adding Color to Black and White Image

Seasonal colors were added to the obstructed biliary tree imaged with MRCP.  Pink represents the spring, green the summer, brown the fall and white the winter.  Enhancing the black and white native image with color is an easy manipulation enabling all radiologists to become “artists”  Add a little color, create a story around the new image – and creativity is born.

Aortic Dance

Adding a Second Image and Then Color

This is also an easy one, since almost everything is in place and just a bit of color needs to be added. Legs and arms are already present, and the calcified plaques fit as parts of the face (sort of).  The 2 stents on the green dancer become sleeves of the shirt, and the aneurysm on the yellow dancer becomes a small belly.  Finally, tortuosity creates the movement of the dancers.

Mother and Child Fleeing Ukraine in the Middle of the Night

Not only the art of shapes and color but adding a story and or an emotional element

MRI and the Big Toe

Native Image of an MRI of the Foot

Thumbs Up Bird Family

One Image – MRI of the Foot – Multiply by 7 – Change Size, Add Elements – (beaks and eyes) – add color

 

The coronal MRI of the foot leaves the big toe exposed.  The toenail becomes part of the face of all the members of the family enabling  genetics to play its role.  The bird parents are given beaks and color.  The colorless “footlings” trail behind, and their cuteness provides an emotional element.

Native Image of the Anterior Chest Wall of a Female

Perspective – Head of a Maiden

Duplicate – and it becomes  two maidens who do not want to talk to each other

Elongate and reorient   – and it becomes  two maidens who do want to talk to each other

 Add Color and Other People and the story and the art piece changes

Cedars of Sternum Along the River

Isolate the sternum, turn upside down, paint tree, duplicate many times, change size, and organize to give perspective,  digitally “paint” river, sun and earth

Branching shape of the sternum on CT was used to create the trunk of the Cedars. The rest of the river view was created with slightly more intricate digital rendering, but well within the capability of the members of a discipline who work intimately with computers all the time.

More Complex

 

Social Messages

Radiology depends on black and white.  One without the other is meaningless

Kick the Habit or Kick the Bucket