Although I'm a loon, so I'd love to be inside one with the covers off...
Why you're better off not knowing what's going on inside an MRI
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Why you're better off not knowing what's going on inside an MRI
Christians warn us about the anti-christ for 2,000 years, and when he shows up, they buy a bible from him.
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Welp... that's allotta rotating mass... had no ideal that's how the did it... but it makes more sense to me now how they work.
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i once tried to get a job repairing mri's and cat scan's back some 30 plus years ago . not a easy field to get into at the time. I wasn't hired do to being married they only hire -train single techs . do to you be traveling across the country and Canada all year long .
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I thought there was some sort of cryogenics going on inside them to make the magnetic fields... maybe that was older units?
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Ok so that is a CAT scan machine and not a MRI machine. CAT is X-ray based and MRI is the one with the superconducting magnets. After reading a bit about both I can now understand what they do and why you would use each.
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Ah. Ok. I was wondering how the cooling worked in something spinning that fast. Makes sense.
Christians warn us about the anti-christ for 2,000 years, and when he shows up, they buy a bible from him.
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I'm mostly amazed at how they can make them so quiet and well balanced.