Spinning Slices
Take B dials into a locked 135 BPM groove, emphasizing rhythmic synthesizer layers and educational clarity.
The stories behind Spinning Slices
- A Punchy Eurobeat Arrangement for Spinning Slices — Take B dials into a locked 135 BPM groove, emphasizing rhythmic synthesizer layers and educational clarity.
- Spinning Slices and the Mechanics of Modern Computed Tomography — A high-octane Eurodance track breaks down how rapid gantry rotation and slip rings create crystal-clear diagnostic volumes.
Lyrics
Slice it, stack it, spin it around
Look at what the biomed engineers found
One, two, three, spin!
Imagine a loaf of yummy bakery bread
Cut into thin little slices instead
If you took a photo of every single sheet
You could build a whole look delicious and sweet
That is called tomography
Greek for drawing slices
One of our favorite medical devices
Slide through the ring on a motorized bed
Scanning from your toes to the tippy -top of head
Underneath the plastic cover spinning super fast
Four whole rotations in a second flying past
X -ray on the top, detector down below
Watch the 3D picture start to grow
Woo!
Spinning slides as fast as a jet
The coolest little camera that you've ever met 300 slices
in the blink of an eye
Looking inside as the table glides by
Bones look white, tissues look gray
Building a computer model right away
Biomed calibrated speed and grace
Computer tomography
Across the workspace
Slip rings, transfer power without any wire
Spinning round and round so the data can fire
Detectors measure photons flying through the air
Reconstructing organs with microscopic care
We test the beam alignment and we measure radiation dose
Keeping it low while looking super close
Spinning slices fast as a jet
The coolest little camera that you've ever met 300 slices
in the blink of an eye
Looking inside as the table glides by
Bones look white, tissues look gray
Building a computer model right away
Biomed, calibrated speed and grace
Computed tomography Across the workspace
Spin it fast, spin it fast
Stack the slices, stack them high
Make it 3D, make it fly
Rotate the picture On the doctor's screen
That's the sharpest skeleton we've ever seen
Spinning slices fast as a jet
The coolest little camera that you've ever met 300 slices
in the blink of an eye
Looking inside as the table glides by
Bones look white, tissues look gray
Building a computer model right away
Biomed, calibrated speed and grace
Computed tomography
Across the workspace Scan complete
All 3D
Biomedical engineering rocks
