It's not all that much to look at.Basically a white plastic tunnel that they slide the patient into. Thn you expose the patient to a big magnetic field from a superconducting magnet and hit them with radio-frequency radiation. Protons in the watery bits of you give out a signal and they build a picture from it.
The method is very neat, but the kit is not that exciting to look at.
(The method is very neat, but the kit is not that exciting to look at.
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:13,
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No, I know about MRI, I was interested in the fact that you can do operations in itFor one thing, such a big magnet is not going to play nicely with metal surgical tools
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the wub - guide onion for the blind,
Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:30,
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Aha!Should be ok with several types of diamagnetic metals - we use several copper components in the SQUID, which goes up to 5 Tesla. Also, you can make very sharp blades with certain polymers - apparently used by spies and the like as they don't really show on X-rays well.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:43,
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