Summary: With advances in genetics and pharmacology capturing much of the public's attention, it's easy to overlook another rapidly evolving area of health science: medical imaging. This program fully explores that topic, spotlighting technologies which enable doctors to visually render the body's interior at an astonishing level of detail. New possibilities for surgical precision are also featured....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Medical imaging technologies-true marvels of medical science-give doctors the ability to analyze and interpret bodily anatomy and processes noninvasively. But how do ultrasound, hard and soft X-rays, CT scans, PET scans, and MRI scans create their remarkable images? This program thoroughly examines the physics of health-related imaging as it investigates the medical properties of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Over the past century, Nobel Prize-winning scientists and doctors have worked untiringly to develop and fine-tune highly effective medical imaging equipment-tools that play a vital role in diagnosis and treatment. Combining rarely seen archival footage, interviews with imaging specialists, and incredible medical images, this program highlights milestones in X-ray scanning, magnetic resonance...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Nothing can replace the skills of good doctors and nurses, but without digital technology and advanced electronic systems, the field of medicine would soon collapse. X-Rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRI and PET imaging all use electronics to map different aspects of the human body and convert the information into a visual format. This program visits one of the world's leading research centers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This comprehensive overview assesses a number of noninvasive ways to look inside the human body. Segment one addresses the limitations of X-ray and fluoroscopic technologies and introduces computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound. Segment two describes how images are digitized and discusses the practical difficulties in achieving a clear image. Segment three demonstrates...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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McMillan, Beverly.
Summary: Uses microphotography, advanced medical imaging, and annotated illustrations to provide scientific information about the human body, covering the body systems, bones, muscles and skin, sensory and digestive processes, and the brain and internal organs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 612 MCMSummary: In 1905, Albert Einstein released a series of groundbreaking papers on relativity, quantum theory, and Brownian motion. This program hosted by David Suzuki identifies technologies that have evolved from or were influenced by Einstein's revolutionary ideas-TVs, nuclear power plants, digital cameras, medical imaging devices, CD players, GPS devices, and more-while showing just how profoundly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Using the latest tools in forensic science, computer modeling, and medical imaging, this doc examines what really caused the great Egyptian Empire to collapse 4,000 years ago and what that might tell researchers about today's world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EGYMcMillan, Beverly
Summary: An exceptionally well illustrated guide to the human body and the latest developments in medical and scientific knowledge. It features microphotography, advanced medical imaging, annotated illustrations and includes essential facts in sidebar "FactFiles."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Fly Books 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 612 McMilSummary: From CT scanning to the C-Arm and other medical imaging techniques, reveals how technology has allowed today's scientists to study ancient Egyptian mummies, while also ensuring their preservation for future generations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUMSummary: "Provides consumer health information about routine health screenings, home-use tests, blood, stool, and urine tests, biopsies, endoscopic exams, and imaging tests, along with facts about diagnostic tests for allergies, cancer, diabetes, COVID-19, heart and lung disease, sleep problems, etc. Includes a glossary of related terms, and directory of resources"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.07 MEDSummary: Chemical addiction is now being treated like a disease, and a cure appears to be on the horizon. Approaching the topic of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine addiction from a biological perspective, this program features new research into the meso-limbic reward pathway and efforts to implement treatments based on that research using Zyban, Naltrexone implants, and even a cocaine vaccine....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Astonishing ways to share scientific data are emerging in the digital age. This program explores the phenomenal growth of supercomputing and its impact on medicine, oceanography, air traffic control, law enforcement, and other fields. Showcasing practical examples of dynamic visualization technology, the video looks at three-dimensional renderings of cities accurate to the square foot, medical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005