The Road Map
In Melbourne Museum, I was looking through a display on the hsitory of X-ray, and was intrigued by this display. It is a hand held shot in poor light, and ended up purplish at the bottom for some reason, so I have raised the purple tone throughout.
Sorry if you think it is a bit ghoulish but as you may know, I "do anything".
This is part of the research done by Professor Ian Taylor .
I have written the text from the accompanying story below.
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This map shows the arteries of the skin. Soon after death, the blood vessels of this mans body were injected with a fluid that shows up on X-rays. The skin and its blood vessels and nerves were then carefully removed from the body, flattened out and X-rayed.
Notice the concentration of blood vessels in the head, the armpits, the groin and the palms. The feet are not shown because the fluid did not penetrate their blood vessels.
In reconstructive surgery, tissue is often transferred from one part of the body to cover damaged areas in another part. The blood vessels and nerves of the transferred tissue are joined to those at the new area using microsurgery, ensuring that the repaired area has both feeling and function.
It is important to know the detailed anatomy of the transferred tissue and the area to be repaired. This was the first total body study carried out by Professor Ian Taylor and his colleagues in their work on creating a detailed atlas of the blood vessels and nerves.
Purple Theme
The Road Map
In Melbourne Museum, I was looking through a display on the hsitory of X-ray, and was intrigued by this display. It is a hand held shot in poor light, and ended up purplish at the bottom for some reason, so I have raised the purple tone throughout.
Sorry if you think it is a bit ghoulish but as you may know, I "do anything".
This is part of the research done by Professor Ian Taylor .
I have written the text from the accompanying story below.
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This map shows the arteries of the skin. Soon after death, the blood vessels of this mans body were injected with a fluid that shows up on X-rays. The skin and its blood vessels and nerves were then carefully removed from the body, flattened out and X-rayed.
Notice the concentration of blood vessels in the head, the armpits, the groin and the palms. The feet are not shown because the fluid did not penetrate their blood vessels.
In reconstructive surgery, tissue is often transferred from one part of the body to cover damaged areas in another part. The blood vessels and nerves of the transferred tissue are joined to those at the new area using microsurgery, ensuring that the repaired area has both feeling and function.
It is important to know the detailed anatomy of the transferred tissue and the area to be repaired. This was the first total body study carried out by Professor Ian Taylor and his colleagues in their work on creating a detailed atlas of the blood vessels and nerves.
Purple Theme