Head shot
The chap in the badge on the right is my husband. Don’t worry, he’s fine. He’s researching strokes and dementia; if you stand still long enough near a research MRI scanner you’ll be cajoled into lying still in it while the radiographers calibrate some particular sequence of scanning.
So of course I got hold of the scan and of course I got those nice folks at Zazzle to make it into a badge.
What’s been fascinating is the range of reactions I get when I tell people what it is.
- Colleague – female – late 20s – “Euch – no, sorry, that’s gross”
- Artist – male – mid 20s – “Do you have a larger copy of the image?”
- Career counsellor – female – early 50s – “… how… interesting … “
- Accountant – female – early 30s – “But why can’t you see his teeth?”
- Neuroscientist – male – late 20s – “Where did you get the badge made?”
- Cousin – female – early 70s – “Hmmm. Why did you do that?”
Me, I think it’s cool. And at least I didn’t get it made up into a t-shirt.
Aphra Behn - danger of eclectic shock 
It’s when you get the full sequence made up into a 3d take apart model that I’d get worried.
Indeed. We did think of a set of coasters for his parents for Christmas. Or a calendar. Fortunately sanity has prevailed. So far.
You mean your /2nd/ husband. Bog graces all marrage forever.
Well, like the title says, different strokes for different folks. You say potahtoh and I say potaytoe. Etc.
Welcome to my blog, and thank you for reading and for taking time to comment.
That’s actually him in the MRI? love it! Can I have one?
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Well, I could send you the link to the Zazzle page where they sell the badges for a very reasonable £1.45 each.
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I love it, its awesome, Ben… i want one of my head.
This was my feeling too, Monica.
Failed entrepreneur – male – 48 – “What other medical images would be popular on badges/T-shirts/Coffee mugs?”
Hi James – welcome to my blog – nice to see you here.
Most of the good ideas have been thought of already. I’ve seen a cute line in hypodermic syringe pens. And of course you could print the mug with that thermal ink and have a body that disappeared leaving an x-ray behind when the hot water was poured into the mug.
It IS cool. Tis also the badge on the left, not the right! I’ve been peering at the right-hand face – one I think I recognise – thinking… ummmm… no. That really really isn’t him!
I’m hypochondriac enought to be narcissistically interested in what I look like from the inside. If he wants another volunteer…
The image is on the right though HFF. But I see your point. No, he’s not the Mona Lisa no matter how enigmatically he smiles. 🙂
I think it’s an extremely cool badge! Probably about the only image of a person’s insides that you’d really want on display, though.
Coasters. That is brilliant!
You have to make a T-Shirt with it on then your hubby can say he’s spent a whole day with his head on your chest…
I too am loving the idea of a stack of coaster with progressive layered MRI pictures of one’s head… if only because I’d get to be all obsessive compulsive about the order they were stacked back up in.
@ Singing Libraria – I agree with you about that, though I’ve seen more foetal ultrasounds than I consider strictly necessary.
@ Witty – Thanks!
@ Alfster – makes a change from him spending the whole day with my chest on his mind 😛
@ SoRB – you are right, it has to be a series. I so wish you hadn’t pointed that out, I want to do it now.
Love it!
Also loving SoRB’s idea – especially if the coasters were made of some sort of translucent material so the whole thing could build into a 3D thingie when stacked.
Actually, potentially very stupid question, but why don’t teeth show up on an MRI scan? Skulls seem to…
An MRI image is a slice of tissues rather than a view from one side or the other, so it doesn’t show anything that’s not actually present in that slice.
Which makes watching a sequence rather ikky. Especially watching the eyes appear and disappear in the horizontal ones.
Loads of the beggars on YouTube.
B