Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
Infrared Waves
Remote control and communication
Night vision and infrared cameras
Astronomy
(Infrared astronomy has helped us make significant strides in our
understanding of the universe. Astronomers can look at an area of the sky that
is dark in the visual part of the electromagnetic spectrum )
Infrared bulbs
(These are used by some restaurants to keep food warm )
In Hospitals
(Many hospitals safely and easily use UV light for sterilizing surgical equipment as
well as the air in operating rooms. Also germicidal lamps are successfully used in
air conditioning systems of medical and other facilities as a method to sterilize
pathogens that cause illness, and contaminants that can aggravate asthma or other
respiratory ailments.)
To sterilize food
To treat Water
X-rays
Medicine
(The main use of X-rays is in medicine. A common application is in the form of X-
ray machines, which take photos of a patient’s body. If an arm or leg were broken
for example, then this limb would be put in front of the X-ray with a piece of
photographic film behind.)
At airports
(To check customers and baggage .)
X-ray diffraction
(It is also very important in spectroscopy and as a basis for X-ray crystallography.)
Gamma Rays
Because Gamma rays can kill living cells, they are used to kill cancer cells without
having to resort to difficult surgery.
This is called "Radiotherapy", and works because healthy cells can repair
themselves fairly well when damaged by gamma rays - but cancer cells can't.
Getting the dose right is very important!
Targeted radiotherapy
(Here a radioactive substance is used to kill cancer cells - but it's a substance that'll
be taken up by a specific part of the body, so the rest of the body only gets a low
dose. An example would be using radioactive iodine to treat cancer in the thyroid
gland.)
Tracers:
(Doctors can put slightly radioactive substances into a patient's body, then scan the
patient to detect the gamma rays and build up a picture of what's going on inside
the patient.This is very useful because they can see the body processes actually
working, rather than just looking at still pictures.)