They are so many flaps throughout the book and on each page including flaps hidden beneath other flaps.

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When a body is placed between an X-ray source and a photographic (or fluoroscopic) film or screen, an image forms. By the 1980s the technology had advanced enough to produce moving images in shades of grey, followed by 3D imaging not long after. The medical community was an early adopter of photographic technology following its invention in the mid-1800s. 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.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. First up was Hilda, a fashion influencer who had been living with excruciating abdominal pain and a distended tummy. It is a flap book that intrigues children, the excitement that they have to see what’s under the flaps. Time spent inside the machine was reduced by giving the patients bicycle helmets, each fitted with radio receiver coils. Short bursts of radio waves are then used to alter the atomic alignment created by the magnetic field.

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Each week, presenter Kate Garraway meets patients with everyday medical conditions and, together with consultant Dr Guddi Singh from Trust Me, I’m A Doctor fame, guides them through an immersive journey inside their own bodies to help better understand their illnesses. She had been diagnosed with fibroids years earlier, though was still shocked when she saw the extent of the problem displayed in front of her. Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of the digestive tract. Bright, original colour illustrations and diagrams display all the major organs of the human body and are accompanied by witty, clear and informative factual text. 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’.In 1971, American scientist Raymond Damadian (1936–) discovered that MRI could be used for medical diagnosis. I am already using it to help teach my daughter about how her body works, why certain things are important (sleep, vegetables), and also how to take care of herself (nails keep growing until you cut them, it's important to clean boo-boos).

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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. There’s a few in this Look Inside series by Usborne that we keep at our house, and I like each of them a lot. You could link it to the film Inside Out if you want to include work on emotions and feelings for kids who are slightly older. Because MRI can construct images of soft tissue, it's especially useful for diagnosing joint abnormalities, diseases of the liver and abdominal organs, and identifying tumours and uterine conditions such as fibroids.

When my husband Derek was diagnosed with Covid-19 that fear was made even harder to bear because I didn’t understand what was going on inside his body. This technology can help us move from thinking about illness as something that’s happening to us, towards something we can engage with and get involved in. X-ray images were also used during pregnancy until the 1950s, when British physician Alice Stewart (1906–2002) demonstrated a link between foetal X‑rays and childhood cancer.