I think its not about the property of beeing a metall ist a bout beeing ferromagnetic (In that case probably not an issue because these bearing balls are usually out of some kind stainless steel. )
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MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month agoA little metal wont kill you. It will ruin the image.
MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de 1 month ago
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
These aren’t bearing balls. They’re zinc shot.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We get it, zinc shot man.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 month ago
False.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Neodymium magnets?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was told metal interferes with the scan. By a guy doing the scan.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I was told that because I have stents (plastic coated with platinum) I can never get an MRI again by my cardiologist.
A friend who makes knives felt the little bits of metal that he’s picked up in his skin over years of grinding blades getting pulled out of him during an MRI.
Maybe aluminum foil in your pocket would only “interfere with the scan,” but those magnets are powerful enough to make any metal in your body come out, violently.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know someone with metal pins in their leg and they have had a MRI. It depends on the metal. Since I didn’t specify what kind of metal everyone rushes forward to speculate on how wrong I am.
MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de 1 month ago
Yes Metals in general shild RF-Waves used to sample the image (and could get hot by that process)
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Metal in a CT machine = bad image
Metal (particularly ferromagnetic metal) in an MRI machine = injured patient
Check out the stapler bouncing around near the beginning of this video: https://youtu.be/6BBx8BwLhqg
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 1 month ago
Metal will ruin a CT scan. Metal will kill you in an MRI machine.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ausrad.com/…/can-i-have-an-mri-if-i-have-metal-in…
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Isn’t that just because they use non-magnetic metals for implants?
gens@programming.dev 1 month ago
Titanium, afaik
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And that’s zinc shot.
ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This isn’t an implant though. Massive difference.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I soon expect to have screws implanted in my spine. I also have other infirmities. I hope like hell to never have screws ripped through my vertebrae by an MRI.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What are implants made of? Stainless for the most part.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But that’s zinc shot… It doesn’t even look like steel. It shouldn’t be attracted to a magnet.