Siemens has one in our training center with transparent covers. We’ve decided few patients would “choose” to be scanned with it. It’s rather intimidating.
Not all the diagnoses require such a high speed scanning. Motionless organs such as a brain or a liver does not reqiure it. Scanning of moving organs such as heart requires it to get images without blurr. It's like a shutter speed of a camera.
That thing is going to tear a hole in the fabric of spacetime for future generations to come back here and experience life without a personal fusion reactor in the basement of your house 🤣
Would be interesting to have see through covers instead of white ones. Its so boring during the scan and you dont even have a clock ticking down how long you still have to be laying still.
It would be slower indeed. G forces scale with radius and RPM², so going down a factor of 4 on RPM would require going up from a 60cm washing machine drum to a 9.6m diameter MRI machine to compensate. They're big, but not that big. Stick with your washing machine.
