MRI Scanning

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A noisy way of creating images of sliced up people, without having to slice people up. Powerful magnets make all the iron in the body's cells line up and emit radio signals. These signals are detected by a sensitive receiving array and the whole signal is processed by a computer.

The perfect image for the photogenic.

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