The Isotope Tomoscanner

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2489

Date Released

13 Feb 1977

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The New Conference Centre
2. 2The Isotope Tomoscanner
3. 3Elephant Translocation

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Isotope Tomoscanner. DESCRIPTION: Being demonstrated at London’s Royal Institute is a new advance in the field of medical diagnosis, the Isotope Tomoscanner. It records gamma rays given off by radio-active chemicals which have been injected into the body. SHOTLIST: Girl leads patient to couch, patient lies down. MS patient on couch. MS girl walks to controls and moves couch in between scanners. MS patient’s head between scanners. MCU girl picks up portable control box. Various shots of girl operating scanner on patient. MCU scan of girl’s brain printing out. Shots of various parts of patient’s body being scanned. Shots of the scan being printed out. More shots of scanner over patient’s body.

Keywords

Health and medicine

Locations

London

Card file number

77/13

Credits:

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

224

Story extras:

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