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A small body of works of cultural theory that addresses medical Images such as X-rays, MRI, PET, Computed Tomography and their variants has emerged in the last couple of decades¹. The rhetoric of these works has tended to assimilate these forms of images directly into a broader discussion of visual culture, often drawing analogies – consciously or apparently unconsciously – with photography and cinema. Of course these images called images after all, so it does not at first seem too problematic to attempt to order them within visual culture.