MRI-Activities

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Activities \| The picture becomes clear for magnetic resonance imaging

The Educator's Reference Desk (USA)
- Electromagnets – students learn how to construct an electromagnet and understand its basic properties.
In the classroom (Public Broadcasting Service, USA)
- 21st century medicine: Image-guided surgery – students magnetise objects then measure their magnetic force.
Newton's Apple (USA)
- Brain mapping – students read about different ways to map brain activity then observe and make a map of a city block.
The Visible Human Project (National Library of Medicine, USA)
- MRI scans – six MRI scans of a human male showing head, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, thigh and feet. These are a small sample of the images used to create a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representation of a normal male body.
Multi-dimensional human embryo (University of Michigan, USA)
- Sample images listed by Carnegie stages – MRI images of selected stages of human embryos. Slices through different planes – coronal, sagittal and axial – are available.
Note: These animations require QuickTime.
CSIRO Science Education Centres (Australia)
- CSIRO Science Education Centres in each state and territory offer exciting hands-on electricity and magnetism activities for students. Contact the Centres to organise a visit.

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Page updated July 2002.

This topic is sponsored by the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy.