Wellcome Image Awards 2011 celebrates the most informative, striking and technically excellent images acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past eighteen months.  This year’s winners have used techniques ranging from clinical photography to brain tractography to capture the wonder of medicine and the life sciences in all of its glorious splendour.

From a stunning photomicrograph of a zebrafish retina, to a reconstructed CT scan of a patient’s aneurism, the winning images showcase the diversity of images that are made available for public use through the Wellcome Library's image repository, Wellcome Images.

Each of the twenty one extraordinary images and one animation has been carefully selected by a panel of judges including Alice Roberts (science broadcaster), Adam Rutherford (writer and presenter), Fergus Walsh (Medical Correspondent at the BBC) and Eric Hilaire (Picture Editor at The Guardian).

Visit the Wellcome Image Awards website.