Turns out writer Bruce Sterling had an MRI, thirteen years ago, and wrote about same in a piece entitled Magnetic Vision. Writes Mr. Sterling:

“These are magnetic windows into the lightless realm inside my skull. The meat, bone, and various gristles within my head glow gently in crisp black-and-white detail. There’s little of the foggy ghostliness one sees with, say, dental x-rays. Held up against a bright light, or placed on a diagnostic light table, the dark plastic sheets reveal veins, arteries, various odd fluid-stuffed ventricles, and the spongey wrinkles of my cerebellum. In various shots, I can see the pulp within my own teeth, the roots of my tongue, the boney caverns of my sinuses, and the nicely spherical jellies that are my two eyeballs. I can see that the human brain really does come in two lobes and in three sections, and that it has gray matter and white matter. The brain is a big whopping gland, basically, and it fills my skull just like the meat of a walnut.”

He also notes that “MRIs are as narrow as the grave, and also very loud, with sharp mechanical clacking and buzzing.” Our plan is to shortly publish our brain pictures… 21st century-style family pix, our kids, the dog, my brain…

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