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One for hirez, I think; someone really should record and release the workings of an MRI scanner. Sort of techno/industrial crossover, it was quite entertaining.

The process itself all went as well as it could: ramtops drove us in to Trenchard and we walked down to BRI for yet another incidence of the NHS doing what it said it would, on time and efficiently. I really do seem to be getting the best of things, perhaps because I’m not suffering from anything unglamorous like arthritis.

There were a couple of minor irritations: one of the techs in the MRI room asked if I’d had a scan before; I told her that I had, about twenty years ago, and she basically said that I couldn’t have (presumably because medicine in those days mostly involved bleeding the patient, and nothing as sophisticated as thermometers, stethoscopes or NMR equipment existed). Also, when the scan was finished, the other tech said he couldn’t email me the results. Feh. Though apparently I might get a photocopy or something from the eye hospital if I ask nicely. Maybe.

It was more interesting last time round in Hull: It really was new technology in those days and I was invited into the control room to watch the images appear, slowly, scan line by scan line, after they’d finished. I don’t actually remember much other than the startlingly significant snippet of information that the equipment had a Tandberg keyboard: a minor variant on the lovely TDV2200s we were using at my then place of employment. The scanner this time was a Siemens, if anyone cares.

Now we just have to wait for the results.

Comments

[budleysalterton.livejournal.com]

glad to hear that went without a hitch.

now the next wait. any idea how long ?

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Not long - I've got an appointment at the eye hospital on the 28th.

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

someone really should record and release the workings of an MRI scanner

Krispen Hartung (http://krispenhartung.blogspot.com/) did just that, I think others followed his lead. There was much chatter about it on the loopers deight list. (http://www.loopers-delight.com/cgi-bin/wilma_glimpse/LDarchive?query=MRI&Search=Search&errors=0&maxfiles=50&maxlines=10&.cgifields=lineonly&.cgifields=restricttofiles&.cgifields=filelist&.cgifields=partial&.cgifields=case)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

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That's a startling racket. Tracks 2 and 3 are hypnotic and uncompromising. Track 1 sounds like someone performing drill&bass with hydraulic rams and the jumpy-tarmac things that go 'whumpa!'

Very fine. Ta for the pointers.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

'whumpa!'

I read that as 'humppa!' on first glance, which raised all sorts of remarkably strange possibilities.

Riemu! Hei!

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Hah! I should have guessed that someone already had.

Thanks for the links.

[ccomley.livejournal.com]

I think she's right about you couldn't have had an NMR scan 20 years ago. Not sure when they were invented but it was then or since, I'm fairly sure.

They're certainly noisy buggers. Also, very claustrophobic - though newer designs have worked out a way to make the hole up the middle a bit bigger.

I never saw any results from my scans either - I can only guess the results are presented in a manner which they assume Joe Public won't be able to make head or tail of. I'll ask my sister, she's a radiographer.

Glad it (the admin and infrastructure bits if not the eye itself) is all going smoothly. Fniggers xed.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Patented in 1974; first built as a commercial device in 1980. I guess my scan was 1986 or 1987, from unreliable memory, so it wasn't *that* leading edge.