This is a scan of a normal human left ventricle taken by the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner at Crawford-Long Hospital of Emory University. The patient was injected with a blood-flow tracing agent (Rb82) that is a positron emitter.
The dataset is made up of 21 slices, each 128x128. The voxels are sampled at 1.275x1.275x4.505 mm by the scanner. The pixels of the ZY and XZ planes are interpolated to 1.275x1.275 mm to make these slices isotropic (interpolation artifacts are quite clear).
You are looking at the jpeg version of this volume (37 KB). I used the default quality, 75%, when converting using cjpeg. You really need a good 24-bit color monitor to get the full color range.
Created 12/04/95 by abb@nuccard.eushc.org Updated 3/31/96