This year's winning
image is called
Feeding the Heart. The
computerized picture shows the
blood flow through
vessels serving the heart. During the heartbeat,
different
amounts of pressure are put on the different blood vessels
that feed the heart – shown here in different colours.
Brendan Neiland
said it was “a quite beautiful image” and Roger
Highfield also praised the entry.
The runner-up image is a collage of Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans of the heart, inspired by a
new imaging technique called T1-mapping.T1-mapping uses colour to
give more information about heart disease than standard black and
white MRI scans.
We funded an important
recent discovery in Edinburgh which makes use of this
technique.
Judge Roger Highfield, Editor of New
Scientist, said: “This beguiling blend of heart and
pontillist
art shows off a novel scanning technique that can provide
deeper insights into heart disease.”