ABC News: Seeing the Body as Never Before

This is set to air on Friday (tomorrow) on ABC News 20/20. High definition views of the human body...also airing on National Geographic...be sure to visit the web site for more details...fascinating how all this is done. BD

Recent technological advances have allowed for such dramatic and amazing views of the inside of our bodies that watching the footage can feel like you're in a science fiction film or on an imaginary expedition. In such a science fiction journey, the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage," a group of scientists and their submarine were miniaturized so they could be injected into a body in order to eliminate an otherwise unreachable brain clot.

Palter, who has a medical technology blog called docinthemachine.com, is a pioneer of methods capable of producing spectacular high-definition surgical images.