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work_zoct7dwcergshdm62adzq5pb2e	Patrick C. Hackler	The Treachery of Images	2015	6	.pdf	application/pdf	1805	120	62	Key Words: Rene Magritte; art; radiology; radiologists Magritte was frequently reproached for The Treachery of Images. By entitling the painting as he does, Magritte reminds us that images–all images, whether abstract Likewise, when a radiologist looks at a computed tomography (CT) image of a heart or a magnetic This act of framing a painting, a photograph, or a radiologic image is not a mistake, but it If the pathology in question happens to be amenable to illumination by the imaging technique in In some cases, images not only fail to illuminate but positively obscure what they represent. In some cases, images actually distort the reality they portray. anatomy, in these cases, the imaging technique itself leads to misrepresentation. Magritte's work also helps to illuminate the essentially interpretive nature of the radiologist's By showing us that what we think we know is not always the case, he reveals that interpreting images 	./cache/work_zoct7dwcergshdm62adzq5pb2e.pdf	./txt/work_zoct7dwcergshdm62adzq5pb2e.txt