The picture becomes clear for magnetic resonance imaging

Activities

Science NetLinks (USA)

Watch your thoughts! Diagnostic imaging and the brain – introduces brain imaging technologies and the information they provide.

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 December 2009.