• kungen
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    3 days ago

    The first officer retrieved his rifle and left the scanner room “leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor.”

    Nice when they refill the MRI and need to quench it again.

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      Unless he was using steel case rounds, most ammunition isn’t magnetic, it wasn’t going to cause issues with the machine… he’s still a fucking idiot though.

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        An MRI works at 3T to 7T. At that range oxygen is slightly magnetic (Everything is magnetic, just not ferromagnetic). This can cause damage to the machine if it misaligned a critical component.

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          That’s fair, I miss read that, assumed he had dumped a mag full of rounds on the ground, vs a mag with rounds in it.