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Discover how physics can be used to look inside your body and investigate the important role physics plays in treating illness in this month's theme - physics and medicine.
The Inside Story character looking at a brian

 

Inside Story
Try the fantastic new multimedia website from the Medical Research Council and the Institute of Physics - Inside Story. See what happens to your brain when you fall in love and find out how to treat a tumour before taking a look up a bottom! 

Complete the tasks, solve the puzzles and play the games to discover how physics is used to help us find out about the human body.

 

MRI - The Magnetic Miracle Game

Fancy yourself as an MRI doctor? Well now's your chance. Four very different patients to treat, but only one should have an MRI scan. See if you make the right decision with this MRI - The Magnetic Miracle Game (opens in a new window).

http://nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/mri/about.html

The Visible Human Project

 

Visible Human
Take a trip through a human body - and we mean THROUGH from head to toe! See all the anatomical detail from slices of a man with this animation from the Visible Human Project.

 

Medical Physics Careers
Find out what it means to be a medical physicists and see what career options you have with Physics Learning website.

 

How do xrays work?
And other questions answered on How Stuff Works.

Game of the Month
And we have another game for you! Try your hand at laser eye surgery and discover other uses for lasers with the puzzles and challenges set in our new game of the month The Laser Challenge Game.