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

1. Describe how optical fibre may be used in medical applications It can be used in surgery to magnify the stomach, intestinal lining, and it locate images of tumors. It also can be used to produce an image of blood cells magnified 2000 times.

2. Identify the traditional medical techniques that optical fibres might replace optical fibres can replace operations, and having to guess something which can be wrong because you dont have an image of where it is.

3. Evaluate the benefits of fibre optic technology to medicine The benefits of fibre optic technology to medicine is that it is less painful as it just goes through your mouth compared to cutting your skin open.