Description: A magnetic resonance image (MRI) of the human brain. Medical imaging techniques reconstruct the interior of a human body by sensing effects on the periphery. The same mathematics — the mathematics of “inverse problems” — is also useful in geophysical imaging and other fields.

Original author: Crischan.

Modification: This image has been chosen from multiple frames in a sequence, reframed and rescaled. Modification by Noumenon Multiphysics.

Original image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brain_chrischan_600.gif.

License: This image is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.