{"id":321910,"date":"2016-11-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=3587000f024d391b71ab36282aedb535"},"modified":"2016-11-01T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"gamma-anna-a-classroom-demonstration-for-teaching-the-concepts-of-gamma-imaging-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=321910","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gamma Anna\u2019: a classroom demonstration for teaching the concepts of gamma imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamma imaging is at the interface of medicine and physics and thus its teaching is important in both<br \/>\nfields. Pedagogic literature highlights the benefits of interactive demonstrations in teaching: an<br \/>\nincrease in enjoyment and interest, as well as improvement in academic achievement. However gamma<br \/>\nimaging uses radioactive sources, which are potentially dangerous and thus their use is tightly<br \/>\ncontrolled. We have developed a demonstration which uses a localised exothermic reaction within a<br \/>\nrag doll as an analogue of radioactivity. This can be safely used in classrooms to demonstrate the<br \/>\nprinciples of gamma imaging. The tool is easy to make, cheap, robust and portable. The supplementary<br \/>\nmaterial in this paper gives teacher notes and a description of how to make the rag doll<br \/>\ndemonstrator. We have tested the tool using six participants, acting as \u2018teachers\u2019, who carried out<br \/>\nthe demonstration and described the doll as easy to use, and the \u2018tumour\u2019 clearly identifiable.<br \/>\nTh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamma imaging is at the interface of medicine and physics and thus its teaching is important in both<br \/>\nfields. Pedagogic literature highlights the benefits of interactive demonstrations in teaching: an<br \/>\nincrease in enjoyment and interest, as well as imp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}