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Physics Girl | Are MRIs safe? | Season 1 | Episode 10 | PBS

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Medical imaging, specifically magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has come so far that we can create high resolution images of the entire body. The technology utilizes a cylindrical cavity surrounded by a giant electromagnet, and the magnetic field though the cavity is used to image body tissue.

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Noninvasive
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Metal
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