Prize-winning photo - NSF award

[tedster]

At first glimpse, this first place photo might look like a flower or an insect - but it's a stack of 182 CT scans taken from one patient.

Normally, CT renderings meld slices together into smooth surfaces, but, in what he terms the "Rainbow Technique," Fung instead broke them apart, creating a topographical map of the airspaces described by the contour lines of individual slices, and colored according to the density of the tissues that border them.

[nsf.gov...]

[Dabrowski]

Cool. Got me some new desktop backgrounds!