{"id":2826,"date":"2009-03-30T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2009-03-30T04:08:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T08:08:25","slug":"chicken-mccat-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2826","title":{"rendered":"Chicken McCAT Scan."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most third-year students of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College use a C<\/strong>omputed A<\/strong>xial T<\/strong>omography scanner for medical purposes. But for Satre Stuelke, the technology works best as a new form of camera. By running children’s toys, cell phones, and electrical appliances through this advanced scientific tool, Stuelke produces rather unearthly images, of a kind perhaps never before seen. Radiology Art<\/a>, he calls it.<\/p>\n

\"799px-64_slice_scanner\"<\/a>As Wikipedia explains<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging<\/a> method employing tomography<\/a>. Digital geometry processing<\/a> is used to generate a three-dimensional image<\/a> of the inside of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray<\/a> images taken around a single axis of rotation<\/a>. The word “tomography” is derived from the Greek<\/a> tomos<\/em> (slice) and graphein<\/em> (to write).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"screen32\"<\/a>So, basically, the subject lies inside, or through the large hole in the scanner, right; along its axis. Inside the housing, the X-ray scanner goes in a circle around the subject, like a donut rotating around a pencil. At regular, fine intervals, it makes a narrow, slice-like X-ray scan. When done, a computer puts the intricately detailed and shaded images together in a way that enables one to not only see their nuances, but to manipulate that data in new ways. (This YouTube<\/a>, above, should give you some sense of what’s being described but, be forewarned: The music is annoying as hell.)<\/p>\n

Atop this post, a six-piece order of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets dies just a bit more, from X-ray radiation, all in the service of art. “They are so beautiful with their breading,” Mr. Stuelke told The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. “The box design is truly elegant as well. I mean, who knew a bunch of chicken nuggets could be gorgeous?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"tvdinner-med\"<\/a>So sweet. But the really cool action happens with the part the Times<\/em> somehow missed: Because the scanner encircles the image making pictures, when one reconstructs the scans in the order they were made, then plays them back in sequence, what one sees is a ghostly, rotating, 3D-like, silent X-ray movie of the object. On his site, Stuelke includes such a QuickTime with many of his images. Peep the chicken nuggets<\/a>, this wind-up mechanical bunny<\/a>, a toaster<\/a>, this eerie porcelain doll<\/a>, and a Swanson’s Hungry Man chicken TV dinner<\/a>, above, for starters. Now, don’t you wish you’d finished your medical degree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most third-year students of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College use a Computed Axial Tomography scanner for medical purposes. But for Satre Stuelke, the technology works best as a new form of camera. By running children’s toys, cell phones, and electrical appliances through this advanced scientific tool, Stuelke produces rather unearthly images, of a kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,41,64,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}