This past Thursday I needed a break. I had been planning a local CD release in Baltimore, MD for a band on my record label and I used that as an excuse to walk away from Matlab.
The show was great, it was done in a recording studio as opposed to in a money-grubbing-rock-club and everyone had a blast. While there, I saw a photographer taking pictures from really weird angles and asked him what he was doing.
He was a panoramic photographer, and was trying to use the medium to capture rock music. He has mentioned that the Washington Post used some of his Obama inauguration photos, but that he was having a hard time convincing people about the utility of the medium.
I immediately began to think about neuroscience. For you photographers out there who have experience with this technology-
Could one use panoramic photography to take images of brain structures?
For instance, I could see using this technology to make 3-D images of the hippocampus, where you could rotate the image to see the complexity of dendritic morphology after, say, transfection with GFP.
I would love to hear thoughts about this…I am going to talk with him to see if I can try to pull this off using fixed tissue.
But don’t people already use confocal microscopy to do 3D reconstructions of tissues? Maybe you could combine your science with this and your love of Radiohead and come up with a new 3D music concept album – In Brainbows!
Brilliant, simply brilliant Stephen!
SFN 2009-A Brain Odyssey: In Brainbows: 3D-images of the fluorescent brain shown to the music of Radiohead’s In Rainbows.
Sounds like a satellite conference to me!