Look Inside Your Body (Look Inside Board Books): 1

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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. 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 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. 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. 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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Types of endoscopy

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. 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’. 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. R Bud and D J Warner (eds), Instruments of Science, An Historical Encyclopaedia (London: Science Museum, 1998) 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.

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CT scans provide more detailed images than X-ray machines. They can be used to detect bone and joint damage, including complex bone fractures. They can also reveal the precise location, size and shape of unusual occurrences such as tumours and blood clots, as well as internal injuries such as bleeding. 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.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.