OT - OUCH!!

[Mark and Kim Smith]

I don't think safety glasses would have helped here. Or a hard hat!

[Jeff P.]

Geez, and I thought getting snagged by a fish hook hurt.

[Rob Mitchell]

Are you certain those pix are for real? Any metal in a CT causes artifacts in the image (even some fillings will do it) A huge steel hook? Rob

[Mike in Mystic]

those look like x-rays to me. not sure why you thought they were CT scans

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[JLarsson]

The referenced article said, "The computerized tomography scan images revealed..."

[Dave Hinz]

Those looked like coronal "scout scans" rather than a CT slice which would be an axial (horizontal on a standing person) slice, so the artifact you'd expect won't be there - it's a straight x-ray at that point, no reconstruction involved.

Dave "Worked for GE Medical on scanners for a dozen years..." Hinz

[Dave Hinz]

Yes, but the pics in the article are made by a CT scanner in straight x-ray mode. So, you're both right.

[Rob Mitchell]

Ok Dave, you're probably right, I thought they were MIPs when I looked at them first, but scouts would make sense.

But do you think they are genuine?

[Dave Hinz]

Yup.

Hard to say. It'd take all of 2 minutes to photoshop up something like that. If you want to see some amazing photoshop contests, check out fark.com (warning: HUGE time wasting potential at that site). They have one or two photoshop contests a day, and there are some seriously talented folks there. Something as trivial as this would be very simple indeed.

Dave