title: The Hidden Beauty in Biomedical Imaging.
abstract: Caretakers, researchers and photographers working in a busy academic settings, every day are faced with images that are awe-inspiring for their beauty and for the terror they may represent to patients suffering from disease. Beauty in this context is a relative term. It may be seen as the delicate lacework of cells within the normal human brain reminiscent of a Jackson Pollack masterpiece, or the multitude of colors and textures formed by fungal organisms in a microbiology lab. Herein lies the juxtaposition image makers seek to represent. When contemplated in isolation, each represents a visually interesting image. However, when viewed with an awareness of the context in which the image was obtained, each image takes on the ability to evoke an alternative human emotion.
authors.affiliation: a Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , MD , USA and.
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.affiliation: b Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , Baltimore , MD , USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Iacobuzio-Donahue
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans