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Did you hear the one about the MRI machine that went to prison? It’s a scary thought. The whirring, clanking magnetic resonance imager can render any ferromagnetic material a lethal projectile, and is typically housed in a metal-free restricted area. But in the carceral system, the MRI attracts the graveyard comedy of contraband silverware and steel cages. Its gentle, donut- like address to the patient on behalf of modern medicine is stripped of its casing to reveal its churning guts.
Rasmus Røhling sends me a video of an MRI “quench,” a process whether by emergency or design you power down the machine’s fearsome electromagnet and out hisses a hot white cloud of helium, a cottony exhalation like a death rattle or the curse rushing out of a sarcophagus. The MRI machine, a decommissioned miracle, surrenders its magic. Like the containment unit in Ghostbusters, it unleashes a torrent of bad energy, the illness the machine has seen and absorbed in its role in a chain of…
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Did you hear the one about the MRI machine that went to prison? It’s a scary thought. The whirring, clanking magnetic resonance imager can render any ferromagnetic material a lethal projectile, and is typically housed in a metal-free restricted area. But in the carceral system, the MRI attracts the graveyard comedy of contraband silverware and steel cages. Its gentle, donut- like address to the patient on behalf of modern medicine is stripped of its casing to reveal its churning guts.
Rasmus Røhling sends me a video of an MRI “quench,” a process whether by emergency or design you power down the machine’s fearsome electromagnet and out hisses a hot white cloud of helium, a cottony exhalation like a death rattle or the curse rushing out of a sarcophagus. The MRI machine, a decommissioned miracle, surrenders its magic. Like the containment unit in Ghostbusters, it unleashes a torrent of bad energy, the illness the machine has seen and absorbed in its role in a chain of…
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