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brilliantbotany:

scishow:

Before you read the description, see if you can guess what these are MRI scans of.  We thought they were foraminifera. 

imindfuck:

This is a set of scans of some fruits and vegetables in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). 

1. Cucumber.
2. Pomegranate.
3. Onion.
4. Tangerine.
5. Starfruit or Carambola.
6. Kiwi (axial slice).
7. Kiwi (sagital slice).
8. Tomato (axial slice).
9. Tomato (sagital slice).

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a medical imaging technique to acquire images from the human body —vegetables and fruits also =) —, and it is completely harmless (no radiation). If well applied, you can virtually scan any part of the human body. 

Those scans were made, when I was in college, being able to play around with an MRI. Yeah MRIs are fun =)

So cool! You can tell how many carpels each of these plants had in their flower, as well as their placentation (how the seeds are arranged in the ovary) from some of these scans!

That cucumber would make a great album cover