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Child's Play With Kitten Scanner Monday, October 19, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Picture Of The Day >> Medicine   
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| The Kitten Scanner, placed in the hospital waiting room, helps replace the fear experienced by a child undergoing a medical CAT scan with understanding. It is a scaled version of the CAT scan that the child will be confronted with during the examination and includes a TV screen and toys – through play, it teaches the child about the procedure they are about to face. | ||||||||||
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| An animation on the TV screen invites the child to choose an animal character – a crocodile, elephant, robot or chicken - and place it on the bed of the Kitten Scanner. The child can then slide the bed and character into the bore of the scanner, mimicking what happens in reality. When the animal character is in the bore of the scanner, its embedded RFID tag activates an animation on the TV screen, telling the story of that particular character. Who is the character, what did they do, why they need to go to the hospital for a scan. Through this story-telling, the animation shows children how a real CAT scanner works, and how doctors are able to "see" inside the body. (Source: Philips Healthcare) |
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