X-ray pin-up calendar

The Eizo medical supply company issued a 2010 calendar of X-ray pin-ups. (Via Anon's comment)

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Anonymous

TimDrew- Am I the only person who looks at your link and thought “man high heels ARE evil.” And for the record, I’m surprised that anybody around here thought the xrays in the original WEREN’T photoshopped.
jowlsey

Meh, I’m holding out for the TSA edition.
Halloween Jack

AWW YEAH BABY SHOW ME YOUR COCCYX
Saint Fnordius

It does make sense for these pictures to be originals: Eizo wants to advertise their x-ray imaging capabilities, and probably had a studio set up for the pictures. I would like to see the original calendar, where they probably put in fine print what Eizo devices and software were used to achieve these images.
elk

I want to buy one…please to tell me how!
bcsizemo

For some reason when I see the xray I’ll I think about is the “jiggly butt”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b248cANtWBo
Anonymous

Looks like she has a stress fracture on on #5. Seek Treatment.
Ambiguity

The posters who are saying CG are correct. If you look at the credits, there is one for “illustrator/GCI,” but none for any kind of X-ray technologist.

But how I wish this was real….
Anonymous

I await the Dieux du Stade version.
Anonymous

Is it just me, or is that particular pic (above) so hawt?
mr.skeleton

Wonderful! I wonder if it’s actually CG, or perhaps some kind of composite.
Amplifier

I think you’ll find it’s a 3D render (you can tell by the pixels)
Anonymous

Guys, this is obviously CG – you can’t get depth that is all in focus with a planar imaging modality like X-rays. That’s why doctors order AP (anterior to posterior) or PA (posterior to anterior) chest x-rays – the farther an object is from the X-ray detector, the more the waves are diffused out. Objects closest to the detector remain sharp.
Antinous / Moderator

Who cares about the models, Ralph Lauren’s new shoe collection is fabulous.
Anonymous

necrophilia ftw?!
Anonymous

As a registered medical Radiologic Technologist I am obviously impressed with the artistic aspect of these images!
As a Radiological Control Technician I am unimpressed with the amount of radiation the subject may have been exposed to. It was probably less than what you and I see from natural background radiation annually.
That said… I also wish had copy of the calendar.
Anonymous

Inspiration? http://gossip.tuttogratis.it/fotogallery/pin-up-anni-50_1741_23.html
- TimDrew
  
  Seems more inspired by Helmut Newton’s x-ray glamour photos (which show what shoes, bracelets, etc. really look like when x-rayed- pretty neat). Examples found here:
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/8148121@N08/3780649793/
jeffbell

I really doubt that anybody was irradiated just for this calendar. It’s totally shopped.

For example, figure 2010(8) has dark nipples. If anything, they would show up as white. Radiologists sometimes even put little markers so that nipples are not mistaken for tumors.

For example http://nexradiology.blogspot.com/2009/10/nipple-markers.html
- Sork
  
  Nipple marker, what a cool new name for paper clip.
  - MrScience
    
    It looks like one would need to use a ‘nipple marker’ to indicate the day of the month on the calendar.
Jerril

Not only do I say this is CGI (and I’m glad to hear there’s a credit for the illustrator) but I think that’s Victoria 4, the Victoria 4 Skeleton, the pwEffect surface shaders, all rendered using DAZ Studio (all from DAZ3D.com).

Which is totally awesome, nice to see someone from the community making BoingBoing news :D
Darwindr

First thing I thought of was the sexy, mostly invisible female ghoul that Fafhrd falls for in The Swords of Lankhmar, by Fritz Leiber (you could only see her skeleton of the glistening of her invisible skin in the fireflight). I had to look up her name, it was Kreeshkra. Man those were good stories.
robulus

I think it’s pretty obvious they’ve used photographic images as a reference, and then posed 3D models to fit.

But it’s probably better in light of that. Very nice work and cleverly done.
querent

very hot. so much more intimate than simple nudity. you are quite lovely lady.
eagleapex

Any clue why the lungs would be darker than other parts? It’s like they are absorbing the Xrays.
- jackie31337
  
  When lungs are full of air, they are nearly invisible on x-rays. When lungs show up opaque on a x-ray, you know there’s something other than air in them. For example, that’s how they diagnose pneumonia from a chest x-ray (I’ve had quite a few chest x-rays, and cases of pneumonia).
nosarembo

I want a doctor!
To take your picture!
So I can look at you from inside as well
Nadreck

The logical outcome of the anorexic model craze.
Marvin

Kreeshkra wants to turn us mud-men to sweet crystal flesh. Mmmm.
Anonymous

Is a real, live woman with flesh, a face, and eyes that look into yours too much for you guys spending the night in front of your laptops? A skeleton wearing heels, no less. Do you feel superior to guys with inflatable girl friends? Be brave. Take a chance. Go out and meet a nice girl. Don’t go there, into x-ray porn. At least consider how much radiation a person is taking for your viewing pleasure. Seriously.
- Brainspore
  
  Don’t go there, into x-ray porn.
  
  Isn’t all porn X-rayted?
neurolux

Apparently her breasts are real.
Anonymous

Makes me want to jump her bones…
Anonymous

thats awesome
Felton

That’s a triple x-ray, that is.
Daemon

If I was going to buy a calender, I think this might be it.
PushTheOtherButton

I say this is a government plot to encourage cultural acceptance of full-body scanners at airports…
theLadyfingers

Clearly CG, unless she’s lying on a mat of liquid hydrogen for the X-rays to pass through.
Anonymous

This is all CG. Xrays cannot get that depth of field, not to mention, there aren’t any traces of soft tissue that normally shows up on an x-ray. Any small amount of metal on her shoe should have created artifacts on a real xray.

The only way one could get ‘xray’ images in those poses is a CT scan… and since human scanners aren’t going to fit those poses in, they’d have had to use a large animal scanner. “Hey, this porn lady goes in before the elephant!”

The images are too free of noise and artifacts to be from a CT scan. Some of the bones are too perfect and didactic to be from a real person. Human bodies are full of quirks that the medical atlases don’t show. The skeleton is from a stock 3D medical model folks, no radiation was involved in making of these images(minus some xrays they creators might have used as references, taken for diagnostic reasons and had privacy releases to be used for referencing)

Lungs are darker on xrays because the xray can pass through air(not dense) while it can’t pass as easily through denser tissue. So no, lungs are not absorbing the radiation.
Anonymous

You gotta wonder how much radiation that girl has just taken…
OrcOnTheEndOfMyFork

Nice frame.
Anonymous

Yay! You posted it!

I’d like to give credit where credit is due though, I got this via MeFi: http://www.metafilter.com/92888/The-Radiographic-Nude

I’d like to take this time to thank the diligent and hard-working moderation staff for continuing to approve anonymous comments.
putty

Way below my standards, knees too sharp etc…
Ugly Canuck

Now why did this tune “pop” into my head just now?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9rHlFxPeCQ

Bone-y, indeed.
- eviladrian
  
  I guess we have different cultural touchstones…
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjkapAnT6M
  - Ugly Canuck
    
    Hey, the good ol’ chemical bros!
    Not quite as “beaty” as their tracks I seem to recall – that’s lyrical, almost. Quite nice.
    
    Here’s a meaty, big & bouncy, cover of the song I lnked to above, by the Who:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnIwYZkq9c0&feature=related
    
    And here’s one by John Lennon (with a very nice slideshow of images of Mr Lennon, which I cannot recall seeing before):
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnzisSBE4bw&feature=related
    
    It’s a hoary ol’ song, but it deserves to be better known, IMHO.
IamInnocent

Very Judeo-Christian.
Coherent

That’s crazy, getting a full body x-ray’s worth of radiation just for a calendar. Or rather, 12 full-body x-ray’s worth of radiation, if they used the same model. But strangely, the result is actually pretty hot…
- Anonymous
  
  That’s crazy, getting a full body x-ray’s worth of radiation just for a calendar. Or rather, 12 full-body x-ray’s worth of radiation, if they used the same model. But strangely, the result is actually pretty hot…
  
  I doubt they’d do that, but even if they did, I don’t think it would be that dangerous. The regulations on these sorts of things are generously on the side of safety. (Note: I’m not really qualified to talk about xrays, but I was trained to handle radioactive materials at a DOE facility — various types of xray doses were taught to contextualize our exposure at the facility.)
  - nox
    
    I doubt they’d do that, but even if they did, I don’t think it would be that dangerous. The regulations on these sorts of things are generously on the side of safety. (Note: I’m not really qualified to talk about xrays, but I was trained to handle radioactive materials at a DOE facility — various types of xray doses were taught to contextualize our exposure at the facility.)
    
    Quack chiropractors have been radiating people for years. I just hope this was a digital setup, which uses far less radiation.
    
    Real medical professionals are really uncomfortable with radiating gonads unless absolutely necessary. For all we know, this could be some advanced photoshop.
CG

I kinda liked the relation of the skeleton to the form. I think this would be very useful as an art reference.

That said, I hope it wasn’t the same model getting all those X-Rays…
Tony Moore

i’d jump her bones. ZING!

-T