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The image, reconstructed from the echo pattern, is capable of truly amazing resolution. And so discerning is this instrument, that the tiny valves of the heart can be studied as they snap open and shut during the contractions of the heart. Mothers and fathers, for the first time, have been afforded a view of their unborn child by this spectacular technology.