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Image: COURTESY OF MAXIME CHAMBERLAND, DAVID FORTIN AND MAXIME DESCOTEAUX Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab
A magnetic resonance image reveals a glioblastoma tumor (red) that has displaced the brain's white matter connections (colored strands). The color spectrum in this image gives surgeons vital pre-op information: blue strands are farthest from the growth, and red areas are closest.
This article was originally published with the title Red Alert.
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Add CommentAsk any patient or family member if there is any beauty in a brain tumor and I believe no one will respond that there is anything at all remotely beautiful about the personal and shared agony of an alien monster invading one's brain.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAs an MRI Technologist myself, I understand the aesthetic "beauty" of the image, but I also see the dread and fear that accompanies the patient every day waiting for the positive life enhancing and life giving response from treatment. That postive response is the single sole beauty.
Sorry for leaving out the "i" in positive in the last sentence.
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