(Big) CAT scan
March 21, 2015 8:03 AM   Subscribe

I have no idea how these people got their cat wedged into their scanner, or why.

(Here's another resulting DVR.)
posted by progosk (29 comments total) 34 users marked this as a favorite
 
Dear God. That is awesome.
posted by amy27 at 8:08 AM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


That is beyond awesome.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 8:14 AM on March 21, 2015


Here's the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)'s page about their CT scanner (with more pictures, and a short blurb in English).

Here's a longer article (in German).
posted by effbot at 8:18 AM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


That is so far beyond awesome, it has moved into stupendous.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:19 AM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


Schöne Löwe!
posted by obfuscation at 8:23 AM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]




Leopard, in case you were planning on sleeping tonight.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 8:25 AM on March 21, 2015 [4 favorites]


hur hur...
posted by Wretch729 at 8:46 AM on March 21, 2015


In case anyone reads the comments down here: for those who might have missed the cultural reference in this post. (Earliest known Metafilter post)
posted by beagle at 8:48 AM on March 21, 2015 [5 favorites]


♫ In the scanner, the big cat scanner, the lion sleeps tonight... ♫
posted by gwint at 8:52 AM on March 21, 2015 [25 favorites]


"Barry Kellogg, senior veterinary advisor for The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, told HuffPost there are probably no long-term ill health effects of photocopying a cat, but that the cat probably doesn't enjoy the process all that much."
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posted by Fizz at 8:55 AM on March 21, 2015 [5 favorites]


So this cat scan, it vibrates rotates?
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 9:02 AM on March 21, 2015


Usually... elephant tranquilizers...
posted by dreamling at 9:08 AM on March 21, 2015


Another big-cat scan: Ganov (or Gov?), from the Haifa zoo.
posted by progosk at 9:11 AM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


That is beyond sweet...
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 9:25 AM on March 21, 2015


Lions and tigers - and bears, oh my...
posted by progosk at 9:36 AM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


When I was in medical school in DC, it was the days before open MRIs and higher quality CT scans. It was not an uncommon occurance for us to admit a morbidly obese person who needed to get an MRI but would not fit inside a standard MRI machine. Fortunately, the national zoo had a scanner that would accommodate hippos, rhinos, bears. Having to break the news to a patient that we'd like to transfer them to the zoo to get a hippo-sized MRI is a fairly sensitive conversation.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:07 AM on March 21, 2015 [25 favorites]


He's just lion there.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 10:43 AM on March 21, 2015 [3 favorites]


Someone on Reddit did a bit of photoshoppery with this picture.
posted by JDHarper at 10:47 AM on March 21, 2015 [17 favorites]


Someone on Reddit did a bit of photoshoppery with this picture.

Or rather, someone on Reddit grabbed it off another website and now Redditors will yell at everyone else posting this shop anywhere on the Internet :-)
posted by effbot at 10:55 AM on March 21, 2015 [6 favorites]


Are they trying to detect injured pride?
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:15 AM on March 21, 2015 [4 favorites]


Ah, true! Better verb would be "posted" than "did." (My kingdom for the img tag!)
posted by JDHarper at 11:23 AM on March 21, 2015


This is just evil, but I kind of want the big guy to wake up while on the machine, thereby freaking everybody out
posted by angrycat at 12:03 PM on March 21, 2015 [2 favorites]



This is just evil, but I kind of want the big guy to wake up while on the machine, thereby freaking everybody out

Eponysterical.
posted by zutalors! at 12:44 PM on March 21, 2015 [8 favorites]


Well played, sir.
posted by Fruny at 2:20 PM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


That's the weirdest thing I've seen in a CT machine today! (That's because it's the weekend.)
posted by tchemgrrl at 4:21 PM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


That big boy still looks pretty impressive prone on the table. I just had a supine cat* scan a couple weeks ago. I'm sure had I been prone, I would have looked more...
... whale-like, as opposed to majestic.

*OK, it really wasn't a cat scan, it was a plain old CT.
posted by BlueHorse at 5:59 PM on March 21, 2015


Via google translate:
Europe's most modern Forschungstomograf is in Berlin. Lions come into the tube
Metafilter: Lions come into the tube.
posted by jferg at 6:51 PM on March 21, 2015 [3 favorites]


Having to break the news to a patient that we'd like to transfer them to the zoo to get a hippo-sized MRI is a fairly sensitive conversation.

Same deal, slightly different: I worked with someone once who had the task of scheduling people for MRIs. The very obese were sent to Seaworld in San Antonio.
posted by megafauna at 2:20 AM on March 22, 2015 [1 favorite]


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