From inside the human body (Microscopic images)

Sem : Norway | Sep 21, 2010 at 9:50 PM PDT

By Jay-ar Mendoza

XX XX

Views: Pending

Get up close and personal with your innards with these 15 mazing 3D-body shots. Almost all of the following images were captured using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), a type of electron microscope that uses a beam of high-energy electrons to scan surfaces of images. The electron beam of the SEM interacts with atoms near or at the surface of the sample to be viewed, resulting in a very high-resolution, 3D-image. Magnification levels range from x 25 (about the same as a hand lens) to about x 250,000. Incredible details of 1 to 5 nm in size can be detected.

Max Knoll was the first person to create an SEM image of silicone steel in 1935; over the next 30 years, a number of scientists worked to further develop the instrument, and in 1965 the first SEM was delivered to DuPont by the Cambridge Instrument Company as the “Stereoscan.”

Here you’ll experience the power of SEM in a journey of self-discovery that starts in your head, travels down through the chest and ends in the bowels of the abdomen. Along the way, you’ll see what’s normal, what happens when cells are twisted by cancer and what it looks like when an egg meets sperm for the first time. You’ll never see yourself the same way again.

1 of 13

This is what a colour-enhanced image of the inner surface of your lung looks like. The hollow cavities are alveoli; this is where gas exchange occurs with the blood.

Jay-ar Mendoza is based in Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines, and is a Reporter for Allvoices.

Report Credibility

Credibility
Reach

More News From: Sem : Norway

Images

alveoli in the lung

alveoli in the lung

Image Source: allvoices

This is what a colour-enhanced image of the inner surface of your lung ...
blood clot

blood clot

Image Source: allvoices

Remember that picture of the nice, uniform shapes of red blood cells you ...
blood vessels emerging from ...

blood vessels emerging from ...

Image Source: allvoices

In this image, stained retinal blood vessels are shown to emerge from the ...
coloured image of a 6 day old ...

coloured image of a 6 day old ...

Image Source: allvoices

And the cycle of life begins again: this 6 day old human embryo is ...
hair cell in the ear

hair cell in the ear

Image Source: allvoices

Here’s what it looks like to see a close-up of human hair cell stereocilia ...
human egg with coronal cells

human egg with coronal cells

Image Source: allvoices

This image is of a purple, colour-enhanced human egg sitting on a pin. The ...