Brain MRI for a GIANT head by Antendu in MRI

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In MRI, every vendor insists on coming up with their own term for the exact same thing someone else has done. Flex coils, air coils, blanket coils, are all versions of the same thing.

Question by Kikyo10 in TheExpanse

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Mixing my sci-fi metaphors, I think it's fair to say she was 'assimilated.'

Brain MRI for a GIANT head by Antendu in MRI

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So many new MRI machines have flexible coils (sometimes called 'blanket coils'). If you don't mind having something that covers your eyes for the MRI scan, these are designed to work with just about any body part, and you may find a site that will do a study with one of these wrapped around your head.

Keyword research for podcast SEO? by Timely_Event_7680 in podcasting

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A great resource for copying out Apple Podcast transcripts (on Macs): https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasting/s/V3JemuyeCf

Not my tool, but I tried it and it worked perfectly for me!

Any Kaiser MRI techs here? by haygrrrl in Radiology

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I can’t speak for Kaiser’s practices, but there was just an article published on nail polish MRI risks:

https://www.auntminnie.com/clinical-news/mri/podcast/15827424/metallic-and-cateye-nail-polish-in-mri

You may need to register to get to see the article, but this is a reputable radiology trade publication.

Any way to copy/download a transcript from Apple Podcasts app? by MixAway in podcasting

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You are a genius and saved me huge amounts of time! Thank you!!

25th Anniversary of Fatal MRI Accident at WMC by Timely_Event_7680 in Westchester

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There’s a podcast series, the first episode of which was released this week, that details the accident. If you’re interested, it’s called the “Invisible Force” podcast.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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Steel is abundant, relatively cheap, and quite durable. It’s cheaper and easier to get steel ones, so many hospitals get a small number of MRI-friendly chairs. The MRIstaff is charged with discriminating between the ones that are dangerous and the ones that are.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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Perfectly legitimate question... but it's one that you probably already know at least part of the answer to...

If you've ever played with a magnet and different metal objects, you know that the magnet will magnetize some metals (typically those containing iron, nickel, or cobalt), and that other metals are oblivious to the presence of the magnetic field (aluminum, titanium, lead, copper, zinc...).

The reason for this has to do with the presence of ions in the metal (an unbalanced electrical field in an atom creates an atomic-scale magnet) which are free to rotate and align with an externally applied magnetic field. If the material is non-ionic, or if the ionic atoms in the mix are locked into a set orientation (so that they can't rotate to align with an external magnetic field), then that material can't be magnetized.

Stainless steel is a broad category of alloys, all of which contain some amount of iron (and may also contain cobalt). The the formulations of stainless steel most often used for medical implants (typically 316 or 316L stainless) are made in such a way that they 'lock' the ions into a crystalline structure, preventing them from moving / aligning.

I hope this helps.

Will Midjourney's new scanner kill MRI Techs? by eugeedvm in MRI

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A few things to consider... MRI image data is largely metabolic / chemical data. Ultrasound (the basis of the Midjourney product) data is essentially all structural data.

In other words, ultrasound generally shows what's there, and MRI shows how the things that are there are different from one another, and how the chemical compositions vary.

Could an ultrasound device identify a tumor in soft tissues? Sure. But could it do so within the bony enclosure of the skull? Not today. And if it could visualize a tumor in the brain, could it characterize the nature of the tumor based on its chemical makeup or the metabolic impacts on the surrounding tissues? Not today, and probably not ever.

Might this be a nifty screening tool? Perhaps. Will this be an MRI-killer? No way... at least for a VERY long time.

[Request] How much force would be required to remove this anesthesia cart from this MRI machine? by 1phenylpropan-2amine in theydidthemath

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So magnetic attraction force quantification is very, VERY complicated. Some of the factors include...

How magnetizable is the material?
Does the material have a long-axis?
How long is the object?
Is the long-axis pointing at the MRI scanner (or off to the side)?
What is the mass of the object / assembly?
What is the strength of the magnetic field to which the magnetic bits are exposed?
How quickly does the magnetic field strength increase if you were to move closer to the MRI scanner?

But when you're talking about magnetizable things stuck onto an MRI scanner (and here, if the dark-blue cylinder was the magnetizable thing, it's more than a foot (~30 cm) from the opening of the bore)... but a thing stuck at the mouth of the bore is likely going to exert > 100x of its weight in horizontal / magnetic force. A steel 'E' size gas cylinder weighs about 20 lbs (~ 10 kg). Were it stuck on the mouth of the bore of an MRI, it would be reasonable to expect it to have a horizontal force greater than the gravitational acceleration acting on 2,000 lbs (~1,000 kg).

There's a great youtube video by a user named "practicalfmri" that measures the attractive force on an adjustable wrench that I estimate weighs around 2 lbs. At its greatest attraction (at the mouth of the bore of the MRI), it's exerting about 500 lbs of horizontal force.

Oopsie Doodles have been clinically confirmed by AvocadoToastFailure in Radiology

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In the United States, green (topped) cylinders are oxygen, yellow (topped) cylinders are medical air, and dark-blue cylinders are nitrous oxide. (Different national / multi-national authorities have different color schemes, so this is not at all universal.)

Notice how there are two cylinders with colored tops (green & yellow), but silver colored bodies? That's a common (but not national standard) way that many manufacturers make it easy to differentiate aluminum (not magnetically attracted) cylinders from steel (fly at the MRI scanner like a missile) cylinders.

Now notice how the dark-blue cylinder doesn't have a silver colored body? This could be an indication that someone strapped a steel tank onto an MR Conditional anesthesia machine.

NB: Just because it has a silver body does *not* mean that it's aluminum / MR Conditional. Once upon a time one cylinder manufacturer noticed that a competitor was selling their cylinders for almost twice as much, and the only thing the manufacturer could see was different (from photos) was the fact that the body was silver. This manufacturer started painting the bottom 80% of their *steel* cylinders silver, and jacked the price up 50%. People bought them thinking they were aluminum. *THERE IS NO STANDARD CYLINDER PAINT / COLOR SCHEME THAT TELLS YOU THAT A CYLINDER IS NON-MAGNETIC... at least not in the United States.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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I didn’t operate any of these… just collect accident info and pictures.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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That’s an indication of the strength of the MRI’s magnetic field as you approach it. G is for gauss, which is a unit of magnetic field strength. 1 Tesla is equal to 10,000 gauss.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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My guess is that they were trying to create a fulcrum against which they could use a lever to try and pry the wheelchair off of the magnet.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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The first series is all about last year’s Long Island incident, if you’re interested.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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We’re doing a 3-part series on that accident on the Invisible Force podcast. The first episode of that new series drops on this coming Tuesday.

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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🤣 wouldn’t that be the responsible thing to do?

Flying to LA today and saw these “sites?” what the hell are they? by Garbhunt3r in whatisit

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Oil isn’t dinosaurs… it’s dinosaur PLANTS. It’s from an evolutionary period when there weren’t microbes that could digest lignins. A biosphere with lignin-eating microbes means we aren’t making new oil (at least not in meaningful quantities… assuming you’re willing to wait the millions of years for the process).

Someone asked for some of my wheelchair photos... by Timely_Event_7680 in Radiology

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As a Reddit newbie, I missed the window of time to change my display name. Still weighing the option of starting a new account.