See Inside Your Body

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The elastomer prevents dehydration of hydrogel,” says Chen, an MIT postdoc. “Only when hydrogel is highly hydrated can acoustic waves penetrate effectively and give high-resolution imaging of internal organs.” For patients who require long periods of imaging, some hospitals offer probes affixed to robotic arms that can hold a transducer in place without tiring, but the liquid ultrasound gel flows away and dries out over time, interrupting long-term imaging. I loved this book more than I thought it would. It is a great resource to teach little ones biology (there was lots in here that I didn't even know). I found the illustrations and engaging components to be interactive and engaging.

Currently, ultrasound imaging requires bulky and specialized equipment available only in hospitals and doctor’s offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the technology as wearable and accessible as buying Band-Aids at the pharmacy. a very fun way to get to know the human body and feed the desire to know with a lot of tabs to discover many details about it. The book is written in a mixture of short and compound sentences that are easy for children to read on their own. Mainy on the sentences are accompanied by a picture or diagram so the book is very visual to help children understand the complex language. The text is laid out within the diagram, which again adds to the book being easy to follow. providing a guide for further tests or treatments – for example, CT scans can help to determine the location, size and shape of a tumour before having radiotherapy, or allow a doctor to take a needle biopsy (where a small tissue sample is removed using a needle) or drain an abscess A typical scan lasts between 15 and 60 minutes, depending on the size of the area being scanned and how many ‘pictures’ are taken.After each X-ray is completed, the couch on which you are lying moves forward a small distance and another image is taken. And with lots of slices, you can make pictures of the body from different angles and also 3D models. This helps doctors see larger areas of the body and the movement of things like blood flow. Instead of shining the beam through the body in just one direction, the X-ray beam passes in a circle around the body and creates a picture ‘slice’ through the area. This book is a wonderful resource for a classroom. Filled with pictures, lift tabs and fun explanations, this book would work well in a classroom library for students to learn about the body and its various systems. This book would also be would be a great supplementary resource for a lesson. However, because it does not use ionising radiation and can create detailed images of soft tissue, it can be used for the detection of many diseases.

The approach directly converts the greenhouse gas into formate, a solid fuel that can be stored indefinitely and could be used to heat homes or power industries. The device’s adhesive layer is made from two thin layers of elastomer that encapsulate a middle layer of solid hydrogel, a mostly water-based material that easily transmits sound waves. Unlike traditional ultrasound gels, the MIT team’s hydrogel is elastic and stretchy. Since the text and illustrations are quite detailed and the numerous flaps, this book is best suited for a classroom or home library.Wearable ultrasound imaging tool would have huge potential in the future of clinical diagnosis. However, the resolution and imaging duration of existing ultrasound patches is relatively low, and they cannot image deep organs,” says Chonghe Wang, who is an MIT graduate student. It contains over fifty flaps, which children can lift to reveal extra detail. Entertaining and authoritative, this is human biology for children at its very best - a book both educational and enjoyable. Ultrasound don’t use radiation to take images. They use sound waves to make images from the echoes.