Science Source December 28, 2009 DVD

Catheter and balloon used in balloon angioplasty.

Catheter and balloon used in balloon angioplasty.

Catheter and balloon used in balloon angioplasty.

Doctors perform an angiogram on a patient who has previously had coronary bypass surgery.

Doctors perform an angiogram on a patient who has previously had coronary bypass surgery.

A cardiologist shows his patient how blood moves through a bypass graft on a coronary artery.

Optical fiber in a catheter shoots argon laser to vaporize deposits in coronary arteries.

Doctor takes the blood pressure of an elderly woman in a hospital bed. The instrument used (behind the patient) is a sphygmomanometer. A black cuff ha...

Enhanced X-ray of a fractured tibia in a ski boot.

A patient undergoing a carotid doppler test. The carotid is one of the major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck. Doppler technique is used...

A patient with Alzheimer's disease takes an object identification test at the Memory Disorders Clinic of Duke University.

A patient with Alzheimer's disease takes an object identification test at the Memory Disorders Clinic of Duke University.

A patient with Alzheimer's disease copying a line drawing.

Preparing injection.

Close up of male skin with sweat.

A hand holding out a centrifuged blood sample. A centrifuge is a machine that spins its contents around a central axis at very high speeds. The force...

A hand holding out a centrifuged blood sample. A centrifuge is a machine that spins its contents around a central axis at very high speeds. The force...

A hand holding out a centrifuged blood sample. A centrifuge is a machine that spins its contents around a central axis at very high speeds. The force...

A hand holding out a centrifuged blood sample. A centrifuge is a machine that spins its contents around a central axis at very high speeds. The force...

Enhanced X-ray of a fractured 3rd proximal phalanx.

Computer illustration of electrical discharge.

Edmund Halley (1656-1742), English astronomer who discovered Halley's comet.

A woman wears an ambulatory electrocardiography device, also known as a "Holter monitor."

A technician administering a cardiac ultrasound to a girl in the pediatric unit of a hospital.

Patient being prepared for an MRI scan. MRI (magnetic resonance imagine) is a diagnostic technique that produces cross-sectional images of parts of th...

An early (circa 1992) telecommunication device for the deaf.

Separated blood, with serum on the left.

Statue of Albert Einstein on the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences; Washington, D.C.

A doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to his patient's lungs.

Oil slick in the Persian gulf during the Gulf War oil spill, considered the worst oil spill in history. It caused considerable damage to wildlife in t...

Portrait of a doctor wearing OR scrubs.

Donations of blood at a blood bank in a hospital.

A sculpture of a standard bearer, approximately three feet tall, from Chichen Itza, Mexico. Chichen Itza is a pre-Columbian Mayan city in Yucatan, Mex...

A patient undergoes a CAT scan.

A patient is wheeled on a gurney through the ER.

A patient undergoes a CAT scan; photographed from the control room.

A microbiology lab technician looks into her microscope.

A patient undergoing color doppler test to monitor blood flow. Doppler technique is used in ultrasound imaging to monitor the behavior of a moving str...

X-ray subtraction angiography of carotid arteries.

The Pyramid of Cheops (left) and of Chefren (right) at Giza, Egypt.

The Pyramids at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.

The Chefren pyramid (middle one of the three) at Giza, Egypt.

MRI scan showing a horizontal section of a normal human brain.

A technician administering an ultrasound to a patient.

View of a patient undergoing Positron Emission Tomography (PET) brain scan, while a technician looks at brain cross-sections on a computer. PET scanni...

Doctors perform a cardiac angioplasty (widening occluded blood vessels with a wire mesh stent) on a patient at the Montefiore Medical Center.

Doctors perform a cardiac angioplasty (widening occluded blood vessels with a wire mesh stent) on a patient at the Montefiore Medical Center.

Doctors perform a cardiac angioplasty (widening occluded blood vessels with a wire mesh stent) on a patient at the Montefiore Medical Center.

A doctor evaluates a patient in the tinnitus clinic at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, NY. Tinnitus, (ringing or buzzing in the ears), can...

A doctor evaluates a patient in the tinnitus clinic at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, NY. Tinnitus, (ringing or buzzing in the ears), can...