The Germans made a film about childbirth using a tomograph

For the first time in history, scientists from Germany have made a film about the birth of a child using magnetic resonance imaging. Using this method, you can not only see living tissues in cross-section, but also observe how they function from the inside, RIA Novosti reports, citing the British magazine New Scientist.

A team of researchers led by Christian Bamberg from the Charité University Hospital in Berlin set out to find out in great detail how the fetus and the mother's body interact with each other during childbirth.

The experiment was carried out almost two years ago, at the end of autumn 2010. Doctors placed a 24-year-old woman in labor in a tomograph that produced one frame per second. The scientists who conducted the study noted that the level of noise generated during operation of the device did not have a detrimental effect on the child and was acceptable for him. The results of the work were published in the June issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

In this experiment, a healthy boy was born weighing 2.5 kilograms. And for the first time in history, scientists received a unique film shot using magnetic resonance imaging. It shows the birth process in detail.

Source: ria.ru