Scientific Illustration

drfrankscali:

The first published illustration in history to display the anatomical attachment of the rectus capitis posterior major to the dura mater (Spine: Scali et al. 2011). Artwork was a collaborative piece created by Dr. Frank Scali and Danny Quirk.

Article which this figure is in: Clinical Anatomy

The recent reported structure found in the body: Spine

Artists:

Dr. Frank Scali

Danny Quirk

CT and MRI of a red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

“CT (a, b, d, f, g) and MRI (c, e) in red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta). CT and MRI have different capacities in visualising vasculature (d, e), soft tissue (c, f) and skeleton (a, g). (b, c): Both of the scanning modalities produce thin cross sectional images of the red-eared slider under study. (a, d, e, f, g): Further processing of the thin cross sectional images leads to a three dimensional digital model of the animal by the aid of volume rendering software”

From: Lauridsen H, Hansen K, Wang T, Agger P, Andersen JL, et al. (2011) Inside Out: Modern Imaging Techniques to Reveal Animal Anatomy. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17879. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017879

“The Digital Morphology Museum (DMM) provides an environment in which you can readily examine skeletal anatomy using the Primate Research Institute’s (PRI) collection of CT and MRI tomography scans. The goal of this site is to enable you to view the scans of non-human primates and mammals and to download scan data from our database for your original research. It is our great pleasure if you can make use of these data and we hope that they will provide new insights into primate and mammalian evolution”

Via Lawn Chair Anthropology