Artful images

Dr. Denis Ducreux, a French radiologist, Professor of Neuroradiology at University of Paris-Sud, and Head of the Diagnostic Neuroradiology Department at Bicêtre Hospital in France, has been creating artistic renderings from MR images for 15 years. Since 2017, he’s been using the 3.0T SIGNA™ Architect to capture the raw MR images. He then processes using BrainAnalyst, a research-use only neuroimaging software he developed that tracks fibers in the brain.

Dr. Ducreux says all of his artistic images focus on the limbic system because it is the center of the unconscious. Although he does not use the artistic images for diagnostic purposes, he says studying the limbic system is critical to research to help understand how humans’ emotional processing works.