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Below is a collection of the Perspectives we have published to date. Click any image to enter a slideshow view.
Jeffrey S. Ross, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
Jennifer McCarty, PGY5 Radiology Resident, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas; jmccarty@uams.edu
Steven G. Imbesi, Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California
The word “alien” is frequently used to describe the amazing and unusual geologic landscape at Trona Pinnacles in California. One can recognize the pinnacles from numerous Hollywood movies that have been shot here including Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Planet of the Apes. This landscape is dominated by numerous tufas (made of calcium carbonate), which were formed underwater 10,000 to 100,000 years ago in the Searles lake bed basin. This long-exposure image gives the streaky effect to the clouds over the tufas that enhances the unreal appearance of the surreal landscape.
Sugoto Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Anvita Pauranik, MD, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
While radiologists typically focus on medical imaging, this single photograph provides a powerful glimpse into a past, and primitive, part of the larger field of medicine. The Georgia Lunatic Asylum (later renamed Central State Hospital) opened in 1842 in the southern town of Milledgeville. This vast facility of 200 buildings over 2000 acres, became the world’s largest psychiatric asylum and housed 13,000 patients at its peak occupancy. Patient care approaches consisted of lobotomies, straightjackets, insulin shock, and early forms of electroshock therapy. Today, many of the buildings of Central State Hospital are empty yet preserved with haunting reminders of the poor facility conditions endured by those who lived there. Within the property is Cedar Lane Cemetery, where numbered grave markers coat the hillside to acknowledge the 25,000 inmates who died there. More of the Dr. Meltzer’s work can be seen at: http://carolynmeltzer.com/.
Carolyn Meltzer, MD, Atlanta, Georgia
Jeffrey S. Ross, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona
The “English Promenade” runs 8 km along the coast of Nice, France. The many blue chairs, as seen in the photo, are used mainly for contemplation of the azure water of the Bay of Angels (la Baie des Anges). In the next few years, the Promenade likely will become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the city having submitted its application in 2015.
Maria Isabel Vargas, MD, Geneva University Hospitals, Division of Neuroradiology, Geneva, Switzerland
This small region, located in the south of Alsace (France), near the border of Switzerland, is known for its many small lakes (or ponds) used for carp farming; “fried carps” is the reputed gastronomic specialty of this region with almost 30 restaurants along the famous “Route of Fried Carps.”
Maria Isabel Vargas, MD, Geneva University Hospitals, Division of Neuroradiology, Geneva, Switzerland
Anish Kapadia, MD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Shigeki Yamada, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery, Stroke Center, NPH Center, Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Bejoy Thomas, MD, DNB, PDCC, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Ajeet Gordhan, MD, Neurointerventional Radiology, Bloomington Radiology, St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington, Illinois
What comes out of the drum? Music!
And there is a dance no hands or feet dance.
No fingers play it, no ears hear it,
Because the Enlightened One is the ear, and the one listening too.
The great doors remain closed,
But the spring fragrance is inside anyway,
And no one sees what takes place there.
Men and women who have escaped from
The gross part of their brain will understand
This poem.
—Kabir (16th century poet)
