Shreyash

Fibre optic technology offers many advantages when used in medical applications.

a.     describe how optical fibre may be used in medical applications

Optical fibres can be used used in medical applications by making smaller and smaller cameras which are used to tkae a view inside the body without making huge incesions, this would mean that a paitents recovery time will be a lot less and the their would be a lot less scaring on the body. Also optical fibres are lot cheaper to make rather than the convetional methods of making a camera for a medical application.

b.     identify the traditional medical techniques that optical fibres might replace

One traditional medical technique that optical fibres can replace is the search of finding and removing possible breast cancer, the old technique was that the whole breast would be taken off is their was doubt, but with optical fibres the surgeons only need to make a small incesuion to find and remove the breast cancer theis would mean that recobery time would be reduced and the females physic does not change.

c.     Evaluate the benefits of fibre optic technology to medicine 

The benefits with fibre optic technology is that it is a lot cheaper to manufacture the instrument this would mean that cost of some procedures would be greatly reduced aswell. Also as I said before the recovery time of the paitent would greatly reduce as they will be able to find the problem using smaller incesions.