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Dog hindlimb, lateral (outer) view

Muscles and tendons of a mouse hindlimb

X-ray of a knee joint printed on coated aluminium, artwork

Dissected pelvis and hindlimb, canine

Embryonic nerves growing into the developing limb

Drosophila leg, tarsus, SEM

Dissected hind paw (lateral or side view), canine

A 3D digital representation of a knee joint Xray, printed onto aluminium plates. The xray image was printed digitally onto acetate and used as a negative. Silver gelatin was used to coat aluminium plates, making them photosensitive. These coated aluminium plates were then treated as a photographic piece of paper: the artist has used the traditional analogue processing methods of developing and fixing to produce the final images. This method was the primary processing method between the 1880s and the 1960s, before colour photographs gained popularity.



This image is of the knee joint as seen from the left. The knee cap, or patella, is seen in the left-hand side of the image, as the piece of floating bone. The bone above the joint is the femur, and two bones below are the tibia (left) and fibulla (right). 



This image is part of a bigger project called 'Soffice' or 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica'



The original artwork is 11 x 14 cm.

False-coloured scanning electron micrograph of a drosophila tarsus, the part of an insect's leg furthest away from its body. Two hooks or claws visible in the centre of the image are used for attaching to rough surfaces. Below the claws lie the tarsal pads (pulvilli) which are covered in hairs (tenet setae). An adhesive substance is secreted through these hairs, which allows the fly to attach to smooth surfaces. <I>Drosophila melanogaster</I> (also known as the fruit fly) is commonly used in scientific research, particularly in the fields of developmental biology and genetics. Horizontal width of image is 103 micrometres.

This image shows the bone structure present in the hindlimb of a 14.5 days post coitum (dpc) mouse embryo. The different bones are colour coded for definition. This image is part of a wider limb atlas project created to identify the structure of bones, muscles and tendons in the developing limb. The limb atlas has been developed by scientists at the NIMR, MRC London.

Bones of a mouse hindlimb

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X-ray of a knee joint printed on coated aluminium, artwork

Drosophila leg, tarsus, SEM

Bones of a mouse hindlimb

Embryonic nerves growing into the developing limb

Embryonic nerves growing into the developing limb

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X-ray of a knee joint printed on coated aluminium, artwork

Drosophila leg, tarsus, SEM

Bones of a mouse hindlimb

Embryonic nerves growing into the developing limb

Embryonic nerves growing into the developing limb

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