
Ashley Davidoff MD
TheCommonVein.net
Art of Radiology
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The Facts are
1- All radiologists love images
2- There is art in all the images we review
How do we find the art in Anatomy and Radiology ?
We just have to look at our images from a different perspective
Purpose of the Presentation
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- provide another perspective of looking at radiological images
- to demonstrate techniques of creating art from radiological images
- Why?
- to enable other Radiologists to find the art in the images with which they spend so much time,
- to enable Radiologists who are not “artists” to create artistic renderings.
- because
- creativity is crucial for a fulfilling life, and therefore
- an essential component of wellness.
Native Image Obstructed Biliary Tree
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Seasons of Biliary Bonsai
Seasons of Biliary Bonsai
Adding Color to Black and White Image

Seasonal colors were added to the obstructed biliary tree imaged with MRCP. Pink represents the spring, green the summer, brown the fall and white the winter. Enhancing the black and white native image with color is an easy manipulation enabling all radiologists to become ?artists? Add a little color, create a story around the new image ? and creativity is born.
Aortic Dance
Adding a Second Image and Then Color

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This is also an easy one, since almost everything is in place and just a bit of color needs to be added. Legs and arms are already present, and the calcified plaques fit as parts of the face (sort of). The 2 stents on the green dancer become sleeves of the shirt, and the aneurysm on the yellow dancer becomes a small belly. Finally, tortuosity creates the movement of the dancers.
Mother and Child Fleeing Ukraine in the Middle of the Night
Not only the art of shapes and color but adding a story and or an emotional element

Ashley Davidoff MD
TheCommonVein.net
CT Scan
Art of Radiology
MRI and the Big Toe
Native Image of an MRI of the Foot
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Thumbs UpNative Image of an MRI of the Foot
Thumbs Up Bird Family
One Image – MRI of the Foot – Multiply by 7 – Change Size, Add Elements – (beaks and eyes) – add color

Original is from an MRI of a Foot
The fledglings reflect the original image
Ashley Davidoff
TheCommonVein.net
The coronal MRI of the foot leaves the big toe exposed. The toenail becomes part of the face of all the members of the family enabling genetics to play its role. The bird parents are given beaks and color. The colorless ?footlings? trail behind, and their cuteness provides an emotional element.
Native Image of the Anterior Chest Wall of a Female
Perspective – Head of a Maiden

Drapes of Clothing manifest as hair on the soft tissues of the breast appear as the head and eye of a maiden
Ashley Davidoff MD
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Coronal CT
Duplicate – and it becomes two maidens who do not want to talk to each other

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Elongate and reorient – and it becomes two maidens who do want to talk to each other

Ashley Davidoff MD
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CT Coronal Chest and Abdomen
Art of Radiology
Add Color and Other People and the story and the art piece changes

High Pass Filter
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CT Coronal Chest and Abdomen
Art of Radiology Adobe PS Filters
Cedars of Sternum Along the River
Isolate the sternum, turn upside down, paint tree, duplicate many times, change size, and organize to give perspective, digitally “paint” river, sun and earth

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Branching shape of the sternum on CT was used to create the trunk of the Cedars. The rest of the river view was created with slightly more intricate digital rendering, but well within the capability of the members of a discipline who work intimately with computers all the time.
More Complex
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Anterior Coronal ImageShows metallic buttons and clothing
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CT Coronal Chest and Abdomen
Art of Radiology
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Image Turned Upside DownClothing starts to look like a cows head
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CT Coronal Chest and Abdomen
Art of Radiology

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CT Coronal Chest and Abdomen
Art of Radiology

Image Saturated, Inverted and color changed, high density spots removed and eyes added
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CT Coronal Chest and Abdomen
Art of Radiology

The Body is Made of Organs and Family is Made of People and the Families Make Up Our Community
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Art of medicine
Art of Radiology
X-rays CT scans MRI’s
36″ x 24″
Social Messages
Radiology depends on black and white. One without the other is meaningless

1. Why did you create this piece? The whole is bigger than the parts and anatomy and physiology teach us how this works in the body as well as in radiology
2. What was your inspiration? The current racial tensions in our country
3. What does this piece mean to you as a radiologist/artist?
In radiology we need the black and the white and all the shades in between in order for us to understand and interpret the image.
Ashley Davidoff
Kick the Habit or Kick the Bucket

by Ashley Davidoff MD
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