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Ultrasound is a diagnostic imaging technology that uses high-frequency sound waves—well beyond the range of human hearing—to produce pictures of the inside of the body. K A Joyce, Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008) Dr Singh says: "The 3D images of the patients’ bodies are incredible. As a doctor, it sometimes feels that language isn’t up to the job of truly explaining what is happening inside the gloriously complex human body. How amazing, then, to have a tool that allows realistic, accurate and personal images to do some of the job for you! When you’re ill, the first step towards recovery is coming to terms with your diagnosis, and I think being able to see, literally, what’s going on inside your own body gives patients the understanding to really do that. But this isn’t just for patients – the truth is, despite all my years of medical training, I’d never seen the human body quite like I did on this show. Being on this show has been a real first for me. I’ve never experienced health in this way, and it’s been an eye-opener."

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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. B Holtzmann-Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997) 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. R Bud and D J Warner (eds), Instruments of Science, An Historical Encyclopaedia (London: Science Museum, 1998)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!" J Bronzino, V Smith and M Wade (eds), Medical technology and society: an interdisciplinary perspective (Massachusetts: MIT press 1990) S Blume, Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992)

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W F Bynum and R Porter (eds), Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (London: Routledge, 1993) 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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The technology was impressive, particularly when they compared the size of Hilda’s uterus to a normal one. Gynaecologist Mr Stephen Quinn told her it would be wise to operate, though warned that if there was too much blood loss, he might have to remove her uterus entirely. Despite wanting to have children, Hilda recognised the importance of having the operation and Mr Quinn ended up removing an incredible 100 fibroids. Dr Dimitri Amiras, Trudi and Kate Garraway looking at a GFX representation of Trudi’s frozen shoulder (Photo: BBC/Remarkable TV) Ultrasound scanners were not commonly used in hospitals until the 1970s. By the 1980s the technology had advanced enough to produce moving images in shades of grey, followed by 3D imaging not long after. Today ultrasound is widely used in surgical procedures and the field of gynaecology.