The Inside View II

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

229

Date Released

1978

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Inside View II

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: The second part of a two part programme which examines the rapidly expanding field of medical imagery - the techniques which allow us to look into our own bodies. The more we see, the more we understand how we work - and new advances allow us to see a great deal. In this issue: - a sensitive X-ray detector transforms the appearance of an X-ray. Now it shows not just a shadow of the bones, but a colourful image from inside the bone itself - by cleverly drafting in the hospital computer doctors in Scotland are using harmless radioactive tracers to build up full-colour moving pictures of the heart at work - a look to the future. A technique which produces images of the inside of the body without X-rays, ultrasound, or radioactive tracers. It uses nothing but magnetism and radio waves - yet pioneering scientists are already able to produce pictures of themselves.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/229

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Fred Goodland

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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