image: The Photography- First Place is the Metabolomic Eye. This shows the Computational Molecular Phenotyping of a mouse eye made with a glancing oblique section through the retina with taurine, glutamine and glutamate assigned to red, green and blue color channels respectively. In this image, the optic nerve head can be seen in the upper right portion of the image with the rectus muscles (red/gold) attaching to the sclera (green) on the upper left portion of the image and an oblique muscle in the lower left of the image. Concentric rings of retinal layers are then represented from the sclera through to the vascular choroid, the retinal pigment epithelium (light gold), photoreceptor outer segments (dark pink), photoreceptor inner segments (light pink), photoreceptor cell bodies, bipolar cells (shades of purple/pink), amacrine cells (varying shades of blue/light green/red), inner plexiform layer (fine filigree of purple, blue and green), ganglion cell layer (varying shades of blue/green), and the optic fiber layer (blue structures at center of image). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 03, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper was titled, “2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.” view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Bryan William Jones, The University of Utah, Moran Eye Center