X-Ray Between Art and Science
Today’s X-Ray copies are both arts and sciences
Duplicate X-rays are more an art than a science. They also created a new market of consumers who want to boast of chest X-ray copies of celebrities who have left their mark on American cinema.
Consider the somewhat macabre sale in Las Vegas : a bidding war on a recent chest X-ray by none other than Marilyn Monroe, recovered to $ 45.000 an auction held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The photograph, reportedly taken when Monroe was 28 years, would take less than $ 1,800, according to Darren Julien of Julien’s Auctions.
The image you have created so much interest, because Monroe was said to have been pregnant at the time was taken during a visit in the past, the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital (now Cedars-Sinai) in Hollywood.
“(X-ray) was taken around the time that was believed to be pregnant, and rumor has it that she had a miscarriage,” Julien said in an interview on the New York Daily News.
Although the medical imaging technology has grown by leaps and bounds since breast Monroe photo was taken in 1945, the image is well preserved and shows remarkable resolution for films produced in that period.
Digital radiography has revolutionized the way the X-ray copies are made and processed, now that many doctors have installed computers and software capable of displaying X-ray images of individual clinics, an additional requirement of HIPAA standards protecting the privacy of the patient. Yet only a handful of suppliers of copy X-Ray has the ability to transfer to film duplication X-Ray.
Digital x-rays can be transferred to DICOM and DVD scans and other forms of electronic media that exists today. But some providers do not necessarily create these images in a HIPAA compliant facility.
If only Marilyn Monroe were alive today to see today’s digital medicine to work!
