Re: The MRI and Looping: For Ambient & Experimental Music?

[Todd Pafford <calenlas@gmail.com>]

Regarding the exploding tatoos in an MRI, the Mythbusters TV show
addressed this very myth in episode 19.  Links...

Mythbusters:  
<http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html>
Summary of the episode in question (scroll down for MRI tatoo segment):
<http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/html/killer_quicksand.html>

Non-audio related, but interesting none the less.

Todd


On 12/7/05, paul <phaslem@wightman.ca> wrote:
>  I was talking with one of the techs at the hospital where I work about 
>this
> discussion. He told me that there is nothing metal in the room. In fact 
>if
> you have a tattoo, they pack it in ice because something in the ink 
>reacts
> to the high magnetism and makes it really hot. I asked about the 
>Microphone
> they have in the room and he was telling me that all the communication
> wiring is done with fiber optics. I was wondering about using a couple of
> contact pickups, I have a few McIntyres kicking around here, on the door 
>or
> the window and seeing what it would pickup. If I get a chance, I can ask
> about it if you like.
>
>  paul
>
>  Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
>
>
>  At 02:09 PM 12/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>
> That would be outstanding. Perhaps putting the recording in the control 
>room
> of the MRI facility and having the wires run into the room, two stereo
> microphones on either side of the machine would be ideal, but that may 
>not
> be feasible. Even a basis minidisc recorder with a small stereo 
>microphone
> attached would be good enough raw material for me!  :)
>
>  Your comment about the headphones explains why the headphones they put 
>on
> me were attached to plastic tubing that ran to the control room...just 
>the
> like good ol' fashion communication system in boats and submarines!  I 
>think
> a mic would be fine outside the machine. When I had my MRI, there were
> plenty of objects in the room around the machine...I just couldn't have 
>any
> metallic objects on my body inside it. They were really concerned about
> that. I was shot in the leg by a .357 magnum when I was a teenager, which
> left several pieces of soft lead in my leg, which were removed 
>surgically.
> That was enough for them to open their manual and search for data on that
> caliber of gun, types of bullets, copper vs. lead shells, etc.
>
>  Kris
>