Re: MRI Machines

In article <37g4645tj54r2vsnchhmab2p1nih1afpsg@xxxxxxx>,
speffSNIP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

I told the tech to give me a time check every so often so I wouldn't
lose my mind, then I worked out a design problem in my head for 30
minutes as a distraction. I can put up with a lot of stuff but being
inside or under that thing creeps me out. I keep having visions of
oxygen cylinders getting sucked through the drywall and crushing me or
the magnet quenching and getting burned in a puff of steam.

What an absurd fear. It quenches, a lot of cold helium blows out, the
O2 in the room is displaced, and you die painlessly of asphixiation.

John

There are a number interesting modes of dying involving cryostats.

I had a full head MRI about a year ago. I don't suffer claustrophobia
and can tune out pretty much any noise. They actually had to nudge me
awake to put the gadolinium contrast IV in.

.

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