Surely you have to at least pass through a metal detector before entering the room, right?
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AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t believe these machines wouldn’t have some sort of sensors to alert if anything magnetic is on the person, and shut down. It would be so easy to forget ear rings, for example.
I seem to recall having a wand waved in bed me for this uprise but that also seems subject to human error
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 year ago
sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
It’s very difficult and dangerous to be near an MRI ‘shutting down’. Assuming what you mean is turning of the magnet. The magnet is always on, its a coil of superconducting wire submerged in liquid helium with a very large permanent current flowing around it. In order to turn off the magnet quickly, the electric current must be quenched, which can happen if the coil every stops being a super conductor. The current starts heating the coil, causing the liquid helium to boil off, which doesn’t cool the coils as efficiently, and causes a rapid run-away effect where huge volumes of helium explode out of the machine, displacing all the breathable air in the room and blasting all the doors off their hinges, maybe even breaking windows. There’s a lot of energy stored in the coil. It’s not easy to turn it off.
Look up videos of MRI quenching
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Surely it’s better than someone impaling their chest with a metal butt plug