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To: Atom Smasher

CT Scans are fancy x-ray machines. PET Scans are also OK, although I’ve not had one. MRI’s use powerful magnetic fields, a definite no-no if you have metal in your body.


65 posted on 09/06/2009 7:29:18 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Yes, magnetic resonance imaging! Hopefully the kind of scans that you can get safely are enough to detect anything wrong.


70 posted on 09/06/2009 8:41:57 AM PDT by Atom Smasher
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