ART GALLERY

X-ray Imagery

(Posted May 28, 1999 · Issue 55)

X-rays are not just for looking inside people anymore. Some applications involve forays into deep space, the assembly of three dimensional views of biological structures, and uncovering the underlying aesthetics of ordinary objects.

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3-D x-ray tomographic reconstruction
This image shows mineral sheaths of the bacteria Leptothrix Ochracea. The diameter of the smaller tube is 300-400 nm. An animation of this sheath rotating is also availible at the 3-D images page. X-rays made at the Göttingen x-ray microscope. From Johannes Lehr.
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X-rays of crabs
From Untitled Imagesbr> © 1999 by Nick Veasey
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Previously Featured Art

Dolomite and Calcite Crystallites by Michael W. Davidson

from Crystals Within Haversian Canals by Michael W. Davidson

(Issue 52 · posted April 16, 1999)

Negev Doppler by Mark Hanson

from Before Birth: The Art and Science of Life in the Womb

(Issue 45 · posted January 8, 1999)

Acute stroke, speech arrest, MR-PD from The Whole Brain Atlas

"My mind gallops in a tundra..." by Ellen Driscoll and Jim Richardson

(Issue 39 · posted October 2, 1998)

Cytochrome C by Irving Geis

Dreamtime Heroes of the Great Sandy Desert by Tjumpo Tjapanangk

(Issue 37 · posted September 4, 1998)

DNA Phase Transition by Michael W. Davidson

A Portrait of DNA by Roger Berry

(Issue 35 · posted July 24, 1998)

Mouse fibroblasts (160x), Fluorescence by Barbara A. Danowski

Lost Referential by LP Demers & Bill Vorn

(Issue 33 · posted June 23, 1998)