GARRAN Medical Imaging has been open for a couple of months settling into the smart new premises in the medical centre that looks quite imposing and impressive in what is a suburban shopping centre.

Its close proximity to the Canberra Hospital is an advantage no doubt but the intent of the practitioners is absolutely patient focused.

With their state-of-the-art equipment, it is still a journey into the unknown for most of us.

For the official opening with staff, doctors and suppliers the Tardis-like premises went from an average-size reception area to large rooms with giant machines that can do more body shots than the paparazzo on warp speed, but none you’d want published in the glossies!

Dr Iain Duncan explained the equipment and I examined closely some magnificent archive pictures of bung bits in real bodies and marvelled at the clarity of the plant-like form of the blood vessels to the brain.