X-ray style art is a manner of depicting animals and humans by drawing or painting the skeletal frame and internal organs. No x-ray machines are used in the creation of this type of art; it is a very old art form known since the Mesolithic era.
Nick Veasey is a British photographer and artist chiefly known for artworks created from x-ray imaging. Unlike many other x-ray artists, he doesn't chiefly work with x-ray images created during medical examinations.
A CT scan, also known as a Computer Tomography scan, is created when a computer program processes a combination of a large number of x-ray images taken from different angles. The result is cross-sectional (i.e. tomographic) images of the scanned object.
Indigenous Australian art, also known as Australian Aboriginal art, includes a vast array of art forms – such as wood carving, rock carving, sculpting, leaf painting, dot painting, sand painting, and more – and some of it is x-ray style art.
Some types of x-ray art explore the fact that x-rays make it possible to probe structures much smaller than can be seen through a normal microscope. (As mentioned above, the wavelengths of x-rays are shorter than the wavelengths of light visible to the human eye.)
Fluoroscopy is an imaging technique that uses x-rays to obtain real-time moving images. It is primarily used for medical imaging and airport security scanning, but some x-ray artists, including video installation artists, have been exploring the possibility of flouroscopy art in recent years.
On 8 February 1896, just six weeks after Röntgen’s groundbreaking x-ray presentation, Pulyui published his own findings in the French journal La Nature. This included photographs showing the skeleton of a stillborn child.
The discovery of the x-ray was a culmination of several years of research into electricity and radiation. The milestone moment occurred on November 8, 1895, when Wilhelm Röntgen, a professor at Würzburg University, was conducting experiments on cathode rays.
Because of the inherent hazards of x-ray exposure, x-ray artists who wish to incorporate x-ray generated images of living humans in their art will normally have to contend with images that have been obtained from patients that needed the x-ray exposure for medical reasons.
Radiography is an x-ray based imaging technique. An x-ray generator is used to produce x-rays, which are projected toward the object. Different materials will absorb different amounts of x-rays, depending on factors such as density and structural composition.