Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Safety

Safety

A number of features of MRI scanning can give rise to risks.

These include:

  • Powerful magnetic fields
  • Radio waves
  • Cryogenic liquids
  • Noise
  • Claustrophobia.

In addition, in cases where MRI contrast agents are used, these also typically have associated risks.

Read more about this topic:  Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Famous quotes containing the word safety:

    There is always safety in valor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Firm, united, let us be,
    Rallying round our Liberty;
    As a band of brothers joined,
    Peace and safety we shall find.
    Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842)

    He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister at the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)