According to David Richardson, author of Modern Ceramic Engineering, ceramics have been used for medical diagnoses for several years. Most petri dishes, test tubes, and microscopic lenses are created from ceramic glass and plastics. Computed Tomography, or CT, scans use ceramic scintillators to detect the presence of x-rays which have passed through the body, and project an image onto a computer, giving doctors an inside look into a patient’s body. Endoscopes and Ultrasound machines also make use of ceramic material to provide doctors with inside looks into the human body through non-invasive means. In endoscopic surgeries, a flexible tube filled with ceramic optical fibers and a ceramic lens, known as an endoscope, is inserted into to small
