Wow that’s a new one.
I’ll share a personal experience - once I was fiddling around with a patient’s IV while he was on the MR scanner table. My head came within ~1 foot of the bore of the scanner at some point, and I could feel my glasses getting pulled off my face. Thankfully I snapped my head back and nothing ever came of it.
Respect the strength of the magnet.
Guessing the gun was a glock or something, which has a body that is not metal. So he thought it was safe. Except the firing pin is metal, so that’d be a problem…
Not metal, or not ferromagnetic? If not metal, is it made out of plastic?
You can induce a magnetic field in a nonferromagnetic metal by exposing it to an oscillating magnetic field… I would imagine an MRI would qualify.
Not applicable to this case I suspect, but relevant to your question.
Maybe it depends on the metal, but I have titanium artificial disks in the base of my back that are safe to put through an MRI.
I don’t understand why people keep going into MRI machines with metal. Don’t they specifically tell you to take off all your metal?
I just had an MRI 3 weeks ago and the tech asked me about 4 times if I was sure I took off all metal on my body and I kept saying I was positive. He eventually told me that people seem to think their metal bra hooks or metal eyelets on their shoes “don’t count” for whatever reason. I told him I was still positive I had no metal because I had planned to be in an MRI that day and wore appropriate clothing, but apparently some people just don’t get it that it’s everything.
When you are so deep into gun culture that you can’t get an MRI without a weapon on you.
He didn’t get an MRI. He was standing near the MRI machine where his mother was getting an MRI.
Nottheonion??