"Schneider is not the only contemporary artist who has borrowed from science to create a kind of self-portrait. Robert Rauschenberg had X-rays taken of his entire body and included images of his skeleton in lithographs he made in the late 1960s. More recently, Australian artist Justine Cooepr portrayed her body using magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, for her 1998 sculpture Self-Portrait. Most patients shrink form getting MRIs, a process that requires lying in a container for an extended period of time, even for a single scan. Cooper endured dozens of these. She mounted each MRI film on a clear Plexiglas sheet, stacked all of them together with space in between, and connected them with steel cables. Seen as a whole, Self-Portrait, is an eerie likeness of the artist's external form, delineated only by the outlines of each MRI film. But up close, one sees that each sheet reveals a slice of the artist - brain, ear, stomach, liver, reproductive system (in the fullbody self-portrait called RAPT)."