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This is related to the National Curriculum in England. Below are relevant extracts from the programme of study where medical imaging can be used as a topic.

Waves
Pupils should be taught:
Characteristics of waves
- about the reflection, refraction and diffraction of waves, including light and sound as examples of transverse and longitudinal waves
- the meaning of frequency, wavelength and amplitude of a wave
- the quantitative relationship between the speed, frequency and wavelength of a wave
- that waves transfer energy without transferring matter
The electromagnetic spectrum
- that the electromagnetic spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet waves, X-rays and gamma rays
- some uses of X-rays and gamma rays in medicine
Sound and ultrasound
- about sound and ultrasound waves, and some medical and other uses of ultrasound Radioactivity
- that radioactivity arises from the breakdown of an unstable nucleus
- some uses of radioactivity