• Zagorath
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    94 months ago

    Is it really an x-ray of the brain? Surely that’s just of the skull.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      154 months ago

      Technically it’s both. It’s just that the bones stand out much more than the soft squishy insides.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      There are brain x-rays called pneumoencephalographs where they replace the cerebrospinal fluid with air, x-ray, and then put the fluid back. Pneumoencephalography and angiography were really the only neuroimaging techniques available for most of the 20th century, so it was pretty common.