Sometimes X-Rays Can Tell You More About Your Body Than Books

We can spend hours and hours reading books on anatomy to learn more about our body but what’s more eye-opening are a series of MRI scans and X-rays that precisely shows our body.

#1. The teeth of a person who is 7 (the photo on top) and a person who is 30 (the photo on the bottom)

#2. The aorta is the biggest artery in our body.

#3. These are the blood vessels in the finger. This is why we bleed when we cut our fingers even a little.

#4. A child turning in the womb

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#5. This shows alcohol-related vermian atrophy. Because of the alcohol, the brain and cerebellum have decreased in size.

#6. MRI of opera singer Michael Volle singing Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser

#7. An X-ray of a patient that weighs 410 lb

#8. An image of an ankle viewed from the side made with a spectral scanner

#9. How a person’s hand changes from 8 months old to 18 years old

#10. A CT-scan of the abdominal area of a guy who was caught transporting illegal substances

#11. An X-ray of a patient who had a facelift procedure with gold threads

#12. A woman put on a lot of makeup before her CT-scan. The machine scanned her heavily made up eyelashes.

#13. A woman with a baby in an MRI scanner

#14. This X-ray of a human shows an implanted AbioCor Replacement Heart.

#15. Tractography (a special MRI method) shows the nerve tracts that connect different regions of the brain.

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Brain Tractography.

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Sometimes X-Rays Can Tell You More About Your Body Than Books

#1. The teeth of a person who is 7 (the photo on top) and a person who is 30 (the photo on the bottom)

#2. The aorta is the biggest artery in our body.

#3. These are the blood vessels in the finger. This is why we bleed when we cut our fingers even a little.

#4. A child turning in the womb

#5. This shows alcohol-related vermian atrophy. Because of the alcohol, the brain and cerebellum have decreased in size.

#6. MRI of opera singer Michael Volle singing Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser

#7. An X-ray of a patient that weighs 410 lb

#8. An image of an ankle viewed from the side made with a spectral scanner

#9. How a person’s hand changes from 8 months old to 18 years old

#10. A CT-scan of the abdominal area of a guy who was caught transporting illegal substances

#11. An X-ray of a patient who had a facelift procedure with gold threads

#12. A woman put on a lot of makeup before her CT-scan. The machine scanned her heavily made up eyelashes.

#13. A woman with a baby in an MRI scanner

#14. This X-ray of a human shows an implanted AbioCor Replacement Heart.

#15. Tractography (a special MRI method) shows the nerve tracts that connect different regions of the brain.

#16. A 16-month-old boy swallowed a foreign object. It’s a Sponge Bob pendant.

#17. This is a panoramic shot of a jaw. The man forgot to take his glasses off.

#18. The brain of a person in a coma and the brain of a healthy person

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