KiTank question 1/2:
READING PASSAGE 1
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below.
PARAGRAPH 1: A new British medical instrument is about to change dramatically our ability to recognize disease hidden inside the body. It is called the magnetic scanner, and it gives information about the body which current machines, such as the brain scanner and the more recent body scanner, cannot provide.And unlike existing machines, the new machine does not use X-ray radiation waves, which make it much safer for patients.
PARAGRAPH 2: Unlike existing scanners, a magnetic scanner can show the side or the back of a suspect part of the body. Used on, for example, a lung with suspected damage, it can tum the image of the lung to give a series of different views. The image is not simply worked out in the computer's imagination": The magnetic scanner actually examines every side of the lung.
PARAGRAPH 3: When examining the softer part of the body with existing scanners, doctors frequently have to use a "contrast medium" to make a muscular organ show up to X-ray waves, the usual contrast-medium™given to patients before a stomach X-ray scan takes place is harmless, but for some brain scans so that it passes into the brain, this is unpleasant and painful and it can be dangerous. The magnetic Next
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