My broken left (phew!) thumb, top bone (distal phalange).


CT Scan of head


CT Scan - 1mm cut top to bottom


CT Scan - 3mm cut front to back

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A quick TO from the newspaper stuff for a minute. I broke my thumb playing football last week and hurt my eyelid. Good news is my eyes are fine, and the thumb will be healed in a few weeks without a cast or surgery. I’ll be back to shooting full time and posting to the blog on Monday.

In addition to the thumb x-rays, I got a CT scan for my eyelid thing. The radiology image techs gave me a CD-Rom with thousands of images of the inside of my head in 1mm and 3mm slices. You can watch “fly through” animations of your brain, sinuses, eyes, and skull. It’s amazing.

Anyways, I put these stills up because I was awestruck by the medical imaging they can do these days and how abstract and strange the images are. Sorry if anyone is “grossed out”, but we all pretty much look something like this underneath when the scanner peers inside us…