Ugh, yeah, how do they even do MRIs for people with metal parts?
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toynbee@lemmy.world 3 days agoI 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.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think, as someone else said, things installed into the body are usually titanium and thus non ferrous. Fortunately they don’t generally cause issues with MRIs as a result.
(I only know this because when I broke my ankle, during the pre-surgery interview, I asked the surgeon about going through metal scanners at an airport.)
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Non ferrous metal.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 days ago
Implants are non-magnetic. Wrecks the image, though.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hopefully they don’t need to do an MRI of my spine after they operate on it - apparently for their sake, not mine.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 days ago
I hope you’ll recover quick and get rid of your health problems!
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thanks!