Ashley Davidoff is Clinical Professor of Radiology at Boston Medical Center.  In his early school years in South Africa, his creativity was directed to tap and flamenco dance and he competed successfully in national championships. When he looked at his art compared to peers, he decided he was not an artist, and failed to pursue this endeavor as a boy.  Decades later he discovered his artistic side in painting, sculpting, photography, and gardening.  His lifetime project is an educational site called The Common Vein.  For this presentation he will focus on one aspect of this project, Art of Radiology,  He is hoping that the presentation will enable other Radiologists to find the art in the images with which they spend so much time, and to create artistic renderings.  He strongly believes that creativity is crucial for a fulfilling life, and therefore an essential component of wellness.

Contact information: Ashley.Davidoff@bmc.org

 

Native Image Obstructed Biliary Tree

Seasons of The 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.

 

Thumbs Up Bird Family

One Image – MRI of the Foot – Duplicate – 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.

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.