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How does an mri scanner work?

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15y ago
Updated: 9/10/2019

When a patient is inside the magnetic field of an MRI scanner, the machine uses radio waves to determine what type of tissue each selected point is. It then builds up a 3D map of the points, creating an image of the scanned area.

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