FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

UI Octoson (a fully automated rapid acting echoscope) name plate, buttons and dials of whole machine. It is used for examining all soft tissue organs of the human body and is a type of ultrasonic device. Operator adjusting the examination equipment including transducers immersed in water. Transducers and scan switch then on transducers moving accordingly. Operator pushing other control buttons.

CU on transducers immersed in water and scanning arm of UI Octoson and CUs of hand working switches on machine. Various scanning methods and medical imaging are discussed. GS operator covering water surface with membrane in preparation for examining patient. GS nurse assisting female patient onto examination table then positioning her over membrane. VS of equipment and zoom to ectogram appearing on screen showing foetal trunk.

MS operator loading polaroid film into machine and taking images from ectograms. CU peeling back film from image to reveal image taken from screen in fine detail. VS nurse preparing swaddled baby for examination on octoson then operator placing baby on membrane. CUs images of baby's head appearing on screen in waves. CUs transverse section ectograms with labels of another baby's skull.

CU baby on membrane of UI octoson sucking dummy and being placed on his back for kidney examination. CU nurse's face and MS position of baby to transducers seen from below. CU image on screen and various labelled shots of polycystic kidney from another infant patient. VS nurse removing baby from table and rewrapping him before carrying him away.