BMJ  2007;335:151 (21 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39199.659352.BE

Filler

The magnetic resonance egg timer

Brian Witcombe, consultant in radiology, Gloucester Royal NHS Trust

brian.witcombe@glos.nhs.uk

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Unless something is happening, an x ray department can seem as uninteresting as an empty garage or aircraft hangar, but it is unethical to let visitors watch patients being examined. Fortunately, when the distinguished members of the Cirencester Science and Technology Society visited us to learn about radiological scanning, one of our secretaries agreed to act as a model, so demonstrating ultrasonography was not a problem. The visitors could see her heart and aorta pulsating, learn how a Doppler signal can be used to assess vascular flow, and witness how abdominal anatomy can be obscured by calcium in the ribs or air in the bowel.

A selection of foods and other items hidden in a cardboard box proved a popular way to demonstrate computed tomography. The visitors enjoyed being quizzed about the contents of the box, and having to distinguish cherries from grapes, a banana from a courgette, and a . . . [Full text of this article]


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