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First Image Taken With an Ultra Low Field MRI
KentuckyFC writes "MRI machines are about to get smaller, much smaller. Most of their bulk is taken up by the huge superconducting magnets required to generate fields of a few Teslas. Now a team at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico has built a machine that can produce images using a field of only a few microTesla (PDF, abstract here). So giant superconducting magnets aren't necessary, a development that has the potential to make MRI machines much smaller, perhaps even suitcase-sized. The one-page paper shows sections of the first 3D brain image taken with the device."
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My experience in those machines had nothing to do with paranoia.
It was 100% to do with claustrophobia .
Before I went in for the scans I had no idea I had claustrophobia.
Being stuffed into the machines caused me extreme panic attacks to the point I thought I was going to die.
After they pulled me out I couldn't breath and thought I was going to have a heart attack because my heart was racing wild.
And you know what, I don't give a shit what anyone else thought about my problem with those machines.
And for your information, I PAID CASH for those scans. There was no insurance or socialized anything involved.
I PAID CASH for everything.
And there's no scarcity of those machines. There's dozens of them in this area, including several in STRIP MALLS..
Yes, in a STRIP MALL right next to a Verizon cell phone store and two doors down from a Chinese resteraunt.
And where I ended up going to for the scan I was doped up, there's probably 100 MRI machines there, in a city of 4 million..
Get your facts straight before you go pointing fingers and calling names.