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Metal Plates make MRIs a pain.
by blazespin 9y ago
Metal Plates make MRIs a pain.
- jessriedel 9y agoNo, essentially all modern metal implants are non magnetic, e.g., titanium. They go through MRIs all the time.
- mattkrause 9y agoNo, it's still a pain. Titanium is MR-compatible: the magnet won't rip the plate out of your head, which is good. However, it can cause huge artifacts that obscure things around the titanium implant (and, sometimes, depending on the scan parameters and implant location, elsewhere too). This is particularly annoying because the implants are often right near the areas you really want to image....