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R Bud and D J Warner (eds), Instruments of Science, An Historical Encyclopaedia (London: Science Museum, 1998) An MRI scanner detects these weak signals. Because each of the body’s tissue types emits a different frequency of radio waves, the MRI scanner can distinguish between them and build an image based on the data it receives.

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Peek under all the flaps in these colorful and engaging books–perfect for little fingers and curious minds.”– Usborne Look Inside Your Body Inside Look Inside Your Body However, PET is not used in medicine as often as other scanning techniques. PET techniques are complex and expensive, partly because they require enormous machines called cyclotrons to produce the radioactive tracers.A CT (or CAT) scanner works by sending multiple X‑ray beams through the body at different angles. This is called tomography. Detectors record how the beams pass through sections of the body and the data is processed by a computer into cross-sectional images or virtual ‘slices’.

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Dr Singh says: "There have been so many, not least the look on all the patients’ faces when they first came face-to-face with their own bodies in larger-than-life technicolor. But in the first episode we meet Hilda, who had one of the worst cases of fibroids her consultant had ever seen. My mouth literally dropped when we were treated to augmented reality image of what it would look like to have all her 90-plus fibroids lined up in a row. But even more astounding was just how different Hilda seemed when I met her after her operation to remove them. The physical transformation alone was mind-boggling, but what brought tears to my eyes was just how much more alive and whole she seemed, too. She was a different woman!" The writing is split up into small bubbles of writing and the children are able to work their way round the book in a creative way. Having the flaps in the book also add that element of excitement making it a fun learning tool. An MRI scanner uses magnetic fields and radio waves to generate images of the inside of the body. Unlike X-rays, an MRI scan can visualise soft tissue such as the organs and blood vessels. It is a safe and painless procedure, leaving no lasting effect on the patient. W F Bynum and R Porter (eds), Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (London: Routledge, 1993)

In 1973, American chemist Paul Lauterbur (1929–2007) showed that NMR could produce images. British scientist Peter Mansfield (1933–2017) developed the mathematical processes that turned MRI into a useful rapid imaging technique. Lauterbur and Mansfield were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2003. J Bronzino, V Smith and M Wade (eds), Medical technology and society: an interdisciplinary perspective (Massachusetts: MIT press 1990)

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Dr Singh says: "So many of us tend to put off seeing our doctors, or simply deny that there’s anything wrong. Confronting our conditions, face-to-face with these incredible 3D images, means there’s nowhere to hide. And that can prompt patients to ask really difficult questions. Armed with more knowledge about their own bodies, I saw patients ask not just about their treatment and recovery, but also about life death and everything in between. The power of this technology is that it allows doctors and patients to talk about the stuff that really matters." S Blume, Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992)K A Joyce, Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008) It would be useful throughout KS1-2. Even if the younger children are not fully aware of all the terms they are still able to use their fine motor skills when using the flaps etc. Yet I was left with more questions than answers. Are these methods used in real-life diagnosis? If not, why not? Why had these women been allowed to live in such pain for so long? More interrogation into the whys and wherefores would have been appreciated. Ultrasound scanners typically consist of a hand-held device called a transducer to scan the body and a computer with a viewing screen to display the processed data as an image. Crystals in the transducer send high-frequency sound waves into the body and it detects the returning echoes. This is called the piezoelectric effect and was discovered by Pierre Curie (1859–1906) in 1880. The book is all about the human body from the digestive system to the skeleton and everything in between. There is a lot of detail but not too much that makes it difficult for the children to read.

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Learn more about your body in this lift-the-flap Look Inside Your Body Usborne book. Flaps are layered under flaps to dive deeper into the body layers. E Koch, ‘In the image of science?: Negotiating the development of diagnostic ultrasound in the cultures of surgery and radiology’, Technology and culture, 34 (1993), pp 858-893This book is so great. It is so informative. My son loves to look and see what happens when you eat food (let’s be real – he loves to see the poop)! It has over 100 flaps (including flaps in flaps)! It shows how your muscles work and how your brain processes what you see. I highly recommend this book.” Other Usborne Books & More titles in the Series include: R B Gunderman, X-ray Vision: The Evolution of Medical Imaging and its Human Significance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) I love how interactive it is and would never fail to get children excited. There are so many links you can make with science and would be a fantastic tool to use when introducing different processes and body parts in biology.