MEDICAL PHYSICS FOR SEPARATE PHYSICS FIFTH FORM
PET SCANNING
Wikipedia entry
A very useful complete slide/animation presentation on PET scanning – from start to finish. Intended for prospective patients.
A nice simple, clear, animation and explanation of PET scanning.
How PET works: One page, with a good diagram. (Video not relevant)
Examples of three sliced brain scans, for you to identify as normal, cancerous, and Alzheimer's diseased.
Antimatter: Electron-Positron creation:
Electron-Positron annihilation:
Simple applet of electron-positron annihilation, giving gamma pair-production (with sound effect...). It shows the gammas travelling onwards, to conserve momentum in the direction that the original positron was travelling.
NHS Choices Website (Another explanation of the method, for patients)
My photos of the cyclotron in the Musee des Arts et
Metiers in Paris.
In this third photo the two D-shaped containers for the accelerating particles
are clear.
A really good Cyclotron applet.
Simple cyclotron image.
The actual nuclear reactions used to produce the positron emitters.
PULSE OXIMETER
Picture of a pulse oximeter.
Picture and principle of working.
Wikipedia explanation
ENDOSCOPE
This is a good simulation of using an Endoscope, and taking biopsies, as you explore someone's insides.
This a PowerPoint of someone's lung being investigated.
A refraction and total internal reflection applet.
THE BODY AS AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE
A simulation of an electrocardiogram appearing on a screen in real time.
A picture of a heart, an image of a ECG, and a short explanation.
Medical detail on the significance of the ECG trace.
A picture of an ECG machine.
