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Full body scan, MRI scan

Full body scan of a female swimmer. Her brain is purple (top), her heart and arteries are red/orange (upper centre), her kidneys are pale green (centre), her spleen is bright green (right) and her liver is dark green (left). Hannah is the first person to have been scanned by Siemens Avanto magnetic resonance (MR) tomograph. This sytem uses Total Imaging Matrix (TIM) technology, which can scan an area 205 centimetres long with a resolution four times higher than conventional systems. This means an entire body can be scanned in one go. It takes 12 minutes to scan an entire person, which is twice as fast as machines already on the market

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Boy measuring his temperature

MODEL RELEASED. Strip thermometer. Boy using a strip thermometer to measure his temperature from his forehead. His temperature is displayed by the green area, which in this case shows 38 degrees Celsius. This indicates that he has a slight fever: normal body temperature is a degree lower than this. The cells in the strip each contain liquid crystals in a tight helix. The crystals are designed so that they expand and begin to reflect light at a specific activation temperature. Each cell's crystals have a slightly different activation temperature. Fevers can be reduced with drugs, but most are short-lived and harmless. Skin thermometers are less accurate than mercury or digital types

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