This is a brain MRI animation, showing sequential slices of
the brain,
from top to bottom. It was a featured image
at
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:User-FastFission-brain.gif">Wikipedia.
This was created by a Wikipedia user,
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fastfission"
title="User:Fastfission">Fastfission.
The explanation follows:
Made from an href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fMRI" class="extiw"
title="w:fMRI">fMRI
scan I had done. Goes from the top of my brain straight through to the
bottom. That little dot that appears for a second on the upper-left
hand side is a vitamin E pill they taped to the side of my head to make
sure they didn't accidentally swap the L-R orientation.
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While fascinating as a visual, no one who uses them diagnostically would want this. A comparison is that even though a patient has an EEG done in a continuously scrolling fashion, it would be difficult and visually disturbing to read it this way -- thus we read them page by page, either on paper or these days on a monitor, since they're done digitally now.