Alexander Tsiaras

Medical image maker

TED Speaker

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Book: Conception to Birth

Using art and technology, Alexander Tsiaras visualizes the unseen human body.

Why you should listen

Alexander Tsiaras is an artist and technologist whose work explores the unseen human body, developing scientific visualization software to enable him to "paint" the human anatomy using volume data. He's the author of Body Voyage and co-author of Information Architects. Most recently, he is the author of From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds and The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed.His latest project is The Visual MD, an online compendium of health visualizations.

Alexander Tsiaras’ TED talk

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Alexander Tsiaras

Conception to birth — visualized

Posted Nov 2011

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TED Weekends ponders the wonder of life

January 19, 2013

Human beings: we are approximately 100 trillion cells, and yet so much more. In his talk “Conception to birth — visualized,” Alexander Tsiaras shows the incredible journey we all take from a single cell to a crying baby born into the world. In a video that makes use of micromagnetic resonance imaging, Tsiaras shows the […]