Medical Visualisation

„Beauty Comes from the Inside: Medical Visualisation.” That is the title of an exhibition that will be on display at the Pauls Stradiņš Medical History Museum from February 23 to May 4 of this year. The exhibition is a work of art which offers a look at various types of radiological examinations, as well as diagnosis and treatment of disease.

People have heard about X-rayography, computerised tomography, magnetic resonance, ultrasonography, scintigraphy, osteodensitometry, etc., but they have little knowledge about the appearance of these processes and how examinations which involve them are conducted.

A wealth of visual materials at the exhibition will include images of examinations of internal organs which are hidden to the human eye. There will also be images of more or less serious traumas, as well as X-ray equipment from the 1930s.

This will be an educational and interactive exhibitions. Touch screens will be used to monitor the work of the human heart, follow along with computer tomography and magnetic resonance examinations, and watch an operation aimed at restoring a jawbone. Visitors will be able to examine a 3D model of the human body and use a mannequin to see a cross-section of internal organs in the same way as medics see them via computer tomography.

There will also be curiosities in the exhibition. For instance, computer tomography made it possible to determine that a mummified animal at the museum which had been thought to be a cat is actually a bird. Users of smart phones will be able to see how such an apparatus appears in an X-ray image.