The Inside Insides blog just crossed my path, and I thought it was really neat, really interesting, and probably a really expensive way to make art. I found the link on PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula, and I can’t think of a better explanation than his:
 

I’m sure it was a moment of epiphany. Person in charge of an MRI takes avantage of an idle moment in the parade of patients to have lunch. Pulls a banana out of a brown paper bag. Looks at banana. Looks at MRI. Looks at banana. Looks at MRI. And the rest is history. 

The posts are each a series of different fruits and veggies run through an MRI. They take a bunch of slices and turn them into animations. By “slices”, I’m using the MRI-specific term, and not the “knife knife stab stab” usage of the term. Way less fruit mess that way. If you aren’t familiar with how this can be, here’s a very basic explanation of how an MRI works. But I’m sure if you watch House you are already familiar with the term.

Broccoli looks kind of like fireworks, mushrooms look like eerily-lit jellyfish, and kiwis look like a big wet smooch. Very cool stuff.

Jim