A specialist medical film describing a new ultrasonic technique for the examination of the brain in children, developed by Australia’s National Acoustics Laboratories and the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney The technique provides for accurate visualisation of the size and shape of the lateral and third ventricles and of space-occupying lesions, and provides much the same information as X-ray air studies
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
011300
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Medicine - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Child development
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Brain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Child development
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical technology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Study and teaching
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Neurology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Ultrasonics in medicine
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)