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Q: Mri - General Interest Query
asked by: bill832 on October 13th, 2006
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Forgive me if i'm wtrong but I am merely a dabbler in this field, general interest in medicine that I could never satisfy due to not being good enough to fix people, just to fix aircraft. By my understanding an mri? Image works from the minor metallic elements in the blood (chiefly iron) so how does this work on patients with depleted blood iron content i.E anaemia? Just a point of intellectual curiosity, I would be grateful for any response, especially if I have any misconceptions that can be corrected.
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replied on October 19th, 2006
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Mri gets its images from resonating hydrogen atoms, not iron. How anemia affects the image i'm not quite sure. Any magnetically charged or attracted metals will be pulled by the mrmachine's force though. I'm guessing that iron in the blood is in such tiny particles that it doesnt effect the image at all.
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