2. Abstract
Due to the fact that everyone nowadays seems to
work and have a very busy schedule, going to numerous
doctor appointment is like torture and not convenient for
people. The Tell All Scan would make it easy for people to
have one appointment per year for those annoying annual
check ups that everyone needs. This scan will check your
entire body within minutes. It will then highlight areas of
concern. For example it will show any problems within your
body that need to be addressed, thus saving people from
unnecessary trips to multiple different doctors.
3. Concept
The Tell All Scan is a very
simple way to test everything
in ones body. One either can
stand in in the machine or if
not able to stand can lie
down. In this machine it take
only a few minutes for it to
capture a complete image of
your entire body.
4. Concept
The Tell All Scan is a perfect way for people
to go to one doctor appointment and find out
any and all things going on in their body. So many
things go undiagnosed and unsolved with a
normal doctor appointment. With the Tell All Scan
people can go in for their annual check up and
nothing would be missed, no need to go to
another doctor unless some problem was
detected. This scan would check bones, muscles,
nerves, organs, and tissue.
5. Concept
This scan is a perfect way for people to get
everything checked at once and problems would
be found early, thus saving peoples lives. Finding
problems earlier in the body is better than later for
example The American Cancer Society states,
“Breast cancers that are found because they are
causing symptoms tend to be larger and are
more likely to have already spread beyond the
breast.”
6. Concept
In the results from The Tell All
Scan done on my example, describes
a man who was in a snowboarding
accident and was rushed to the
hospital. When he got there he was
put into The Tell All Scan and they were
able to find out any and all damage
that had occurred to his body. Within
minutes the scan showed that he had
a broken femur and pelvis bone,
damage to his small intestine, and also
found tears in both the Vastus Lateralis
and the Rectus Femoris muscles. After
only minutes of him being at the
hospital the scan was able to provide
doctors with all the injuries that had
transpired in his body from this horrible
snowboarding accident.
7. Concept
The whole point of this
new Tell All Scan technology
is to reduce unnecessary trips
to numerous doctors,
diagnose problems early on,
and to save lives.
8. Context
In the United States each year ten to thirty percent
of people are misdiagnosed each year, which leads to
wrong treatment and people continue to stuff from what
the real cause is. (Torrey) Throughout the United States a
lot of time people are told that nothing is wrong with them
when something really is. Both of these things just lead
people becoming further ill or end up causing them more
problems. When misdiagnosed people are often
prescribed wrong medication and treatment that can
cause tons of side effects.
9. Contexts
In the United States people tend to hate going to
doctors appointments. One reason I found was that they
think doctor’s appointments take way to much time.
(Senelick) Doctors appointment take especially long if you
are having any tests done for example an MRI can take from
fifteen to forty minutes per person. (Hoad-Robson) Going to a
doctors appointment that you need tests done at usually
causes people to miss work, which is something that most
people in the United States don’t like to do when they take a
day off.
10. Science Precedents
X-Rays
X-Rays is a type of
electromagnetic radiation that
captures medical images of certain
parts of one body. X-Ray machines are
not only used to look at bones but
“before the x-rays were found helpful
they were used in radiation treatment,
to look at bones that could have a
stress fracture or be broken, to see
something in the body that could have
been swallowed, to see the image of a
gun-shot wound such as a bullet that
entered the body, to look at gallstones,
to examine teeth and to scan
baggage at the airport.” (Juhl)
11. Science Precedents
MRI
Magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) is a test that uses a
magnetic field and pulses of
radio wave energy to make
pictures of organs and structures
inside the body (webMD) The
part of the body that is being
tested is placed in a machine
with strong magnets. MRI scans
provide digital images that can
be saved and used to further
research.
12. Artistic Precedents
CT Scan Art
Dr Kai-hung Fung has taken
Computed Tomography (CT) Scans of the
body and turns them into art masterpieces.
“Dr. Fung said: 'The pictures I create are
generated directly from the medical 3D
workstation, representing what I see on it. I
do not use software such as Adobe
Photoshop to further change the image.”
(Kaushik)
13. Artistic Precedents
Human Anatomy Art
There are tons of drawings and labeled
pictures of the human body and this could not
have been done if one does not know what the
human body actually looks like. So the
technology of MRI’s, X-Rays and human
cadaver’s we are able to see pictures in Human
Anatomy textbooks of the human body.
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