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Originally Posted by gary
Medical imaging is a marvel of electrical engineering.
What I like to tell friends to consider is this :-
When you are inside one of these instruments, the magnetic fields are
so powerful that they are changing the spin state of every nucleus of
every atom in your entire body.
Including the ones in your brain.
It was a brave engineer who put themselves into the first one to test it.  |
While I agree with the thought that the engineer was brave to get in there, it had already been tested extensively under its alternate name NMR to determine molecular structures. People get scared when its called Nuclear so for people they changed its name to MRI.