Photo contest orchard architecture - MRI images of fruits

Top Staff: Orchard Architecture

Photography by Refaat Gabr, Ph.D., staff,
Division of Research

This montage presents fruit in an entirely unique way - through the lens of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). By capturing cross-sections with exquisite clarity and without invasive techniques, MRI reveals the hidden architecture of seeds, rinds and pulps in remarkable detail. What appears at first like abstract art is, in fact, the internal world of familiar produce, transformed into patterns of symmetry, texture and contrast. Look closely, marvel at the complexity nature has engineered, and perhaps even play a game: Which fruit is which based solely from its cross-sectional anatomy?