MRI

If I had the ability to go back in time and work on some biomedical technology it would be magnetic resonance imaging. Imaging may not have the appeal of say an artificial heart for some people, but I think that imaging can impact more people in a positive way than an artificial heart could. Images from an MRI machine can be used to detect all kinds of injuries and diseases. The imaging can allow physicians to view more vivid images of the brain, heart, and muscular system. This imaging can also detect cancer, most commonly brain cancer.

The reason why I chose to work on the MRI machine as opposed to other types of medical imaging devices is that it provides no harm to the patient. The X-ray, predating the MRI by about a century, exposes patients to more raditation as do CT scans. Also X-rays can only show images of the bone structure of a patient. In a personal sense my first MRI was when I tore my ACL and without that machine a proper diagnosis could not have been made.





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