by A man in Long Island, New York, was critically injured after entering an MRI room without permission while he was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck.
The incident occurred on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at Nassau Open MRI, said the Nassau County police. The magnetic pull of the MRI machine pulled the man into the machine via his metal chain.
The man should not be in the room and it is unclear that he reports why he has entered.
The police said the man had suffered a “medical episode” and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. It was last described as in a critical condition, reports Pix11.
MRI machines are designed in such a way that they find diseases in the body with powerful magnets. The magnets create a strong magnetic field that is used in scabbing.
The machines can then create a picture of the soft tissue of a person with which doctors can search for anomalies such as tumors or damage to internal organs, according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
A 61-year-old man in New York was injured when he entered a room with an active MRI machine as he wore a metal chain around his neck. (Stock Image) (AFP/Getty)
“The magnetic field extends beyond the machine and practices very strong forces on iron objects, some steels and other magnetizable objects. It is strong enough to beat a wheelchair through the room,” explains the institute.
For this reason, MRI technicians are thorough when you make sure that patients do not have a metal in your person – or in your body – before they are depicted with an MRI machine.
“The static magnetic field of the MRI system is exceptionally strong. A 1.5 -T magnet creates a magnet that is approximately 21,000 larger than the natural field of the earth,” according to the department for radiology and biomedical imaging of San Francisco in San Francisco.
The department noticed in a creation of the potential dangers of MRI machines that magnetic metal objects “become projectile to benefit”. Even small objects – such as paper brackets or hairpin – can achieve a termination of 40 km / h if they are pulled by an MRI magnet.
In addition to the possible dangers from flying metal, MRI machine magnets can also delete credit cards, destroy phones and switch pacemaker.
