Background knowledge
what does MRI stand for?
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
Who looks at the MRI pictures after it is done?
Who is a radiologist?
Unlike the CT or X-ray that use radiation for images, what is used for MRI images?
What is a magnetic field?
What are some of the advancements in the MRI now compared to when it was first invented? List at least 2.
What are: higher magnetic fields, clearer pictures, faster scans, higher performance computing, and can map out brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow?
What can you not wear when having an MRI?
What is metal?
what year was the MRI first invented?
What is 1974?
What type of magnets do MRI machines use?
What are permanent or eletromagnetic?
True or false: the MRI bore opening has gotten wider by 10 centimeters?
What is true?
what do MRI scans require or the images will be distorted?
What is laying still?
What do MRI machines diagnose injuries in between 2 bones
What are joints?
What molecule allows images to be taken of the body?
What is water/hydrogen atoms?
About how high are the magnetic fields producing now in the MRI?
What is 11.7? Also acceptable: 12.
What types of tissues can you see from an MRI?
What are soft tissues?
Who invented the first MRI?
Who is Raymond Damadian?
what is introduce in an MRI and disrupts the protons and causes them to strain against the original alignment in the magnetic field?
What is radio frequency?
What is the most powerful MRI machine right now?
What is the Iseult MRI machine?