Scanner.

[Kay]

As In MRI.. I saw a programme last year about a new type of scanner where the patient lies on a wide long steel? table and above them a scanner the same size as the table/bed comes down.This was going to be the alternative to the tunnel like scanner. My family dont believe me and I must prove Im right! Any help please? thanks:--)) Oh it was the first one in Bristol.

[Scarlett]

I had an isotope bone scan like you describe. I lay on a table and a flat "table" above me came down very close to me. It then moved (or I moved?) very very slowly, long-ways, whilst printing an image of my outline on a computer screen. The result was that any inflammation in the body showed up on another screen- a black skeleton with white bits for inflammation.

[jake-the-peg]

Like this?

http://www.medical.philips.com/main/products/mri/product s/panorama1t/index.html

[Kay]

Thanks to you both for your replies!  Jake I opened the link and there they all were so my old mans cooking tea today:--))