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

Jai Ho

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By Owner - Physics Girl - Powered By PBSFrom Pbs OrgSeptember 10, 2025

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.

#Magnet

#Radiation

#Noninvasive

#Scan

#Metal

#Contrast

#Field

#Noise

#Safe

#Screen

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