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Window on the body: CT scans become art

By Jessica Griggs

20 July 2009

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A CT scan of the nose, showing the sinuses

(Image: Kai-hung Fung)

Radiologist Kai-hung Fung makes beautiful and informative art from the CT (computed tomography) scans of his patients, digitally manipulating them to look more appealing. His image of the inside of our sinuses won the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

See this and some of his more recent works in our gallery

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