The 'scientific visualizations' of Alexander Tsiaras

Too bad USA Today's website doesn't have the photos that accompanied the hard copy version of yesterday's story about Alexander Tsiaras' new book, "InVision Guide to a Healthy Heart."

It sounds like the title of the sort of booklet you'd find on the table in your doctor's waiting room but that's not at all the case.

Tsiaras is a pioneer in the field of medical imaging: he's an artist, photographer and computer–imaging expert who's combined the three disciplines to produce amazing photographic depictions of the human body and its component parts, allowing you to see yourself in an entirely new light.

That's the understatement of the day.

Tsiaras calls the images "scientific visualizations."

"They're built by taking images from CT scans, MRIs and other medical techniques, digitally dissecting them and then marrying them to produce hearts, blood vessels and tissues that have depth, heft and the appearance of vitality," wrote Steve Sternberg in his USA Today story.

Heart surgeon Mehmet Oz of New York Presbyterian–Columbia University told Sternberg that he himself is able, "... after years immersed in the anatomy of the human heart, to mentally transform 2-D scans into 3-D pictures."

You and I need help.

Full disclosure: there's a ton of sensational imaging on the book's website so do not visit it if you plan to get anything else done in the next few moments — or hours.

Here's a link to the website of Anatomical Travelogue, Tsiaras' company.

If you go here you'll be able to watch six videos that demonstrate the scope and power of the company's work and capabilities.

You can buy the book (above; list price $19.95) for $11.07 here.

Cheap at many times the price.