X-rays are art!

And the best sentence ever said about X-rays goes to Nick Versay: "What I want X-ray to do is to excite people and to make them appreciate the world that's around them in a new way."



See more pics in http://www.nickveasey.com/ (click on projects) and follow him in facebook http://www.facebook.com/nickveaseyxray.

To see more about the process, see the video:


I do hope he is being careful about radiation, he should totally use a dosimeter... 

The risk of medical imaging

In the last few years, there has been in the media several news warning to the effects of medical imaging which use ionizing radiation:

http://ps.columbia.edu/news/new-study-confirms-ps-researchers%E2%80%99-predictions-ct-induced-cancer-kids
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/arrs-roc041912.php
http://coloncancer.about.com/b/2010/12/06/do-ct-scans-cause-cancer.htm

The editor William Hendee of Medical Physics has written an editorial about this topic:
http://online.medphys.org/resource/1/mphya6/v40/i4/p040401_s1?view=fulltext&bypassSSO=1

Most professionals are actually worried that people start refusing to undertake medical exams. Do you think this will happen?