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Fun MRI fact. It should be called NMRI or short for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. But then no one would use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_r
by 1cvmask 5y ago
Fun MRI fact. It should be called NMRI or short for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
But then no one would use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
- a_t48 5y agoWhy? We use XRays already.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoAre any xray imaging services sold under a name like ionizing radiation beam photography?
- whatshisface 5y agoI don't think use of the word "radiation" is as necessary as you may be suggesting for the purpose of technical specificity. In fact it is a very broad word. Visible light is radiation.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI never suggested it was necessary for the purpose of technical specificity, what on earth gave you that idea?
- whatshisface 5y agoThe theme of the comment thread is "isn't it bad that the public's fear of radiation prevents us from calling them NMRIs," but I am arguing that it's not such a tragedy after all.
- lostlogin 5y agoRadiology.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoYeah, I guess that's true.
- dghughes 5y agoThe unit at my local hospital where the MRI machines are located is named Nuclear Medicine.
- froh 5y agoWhere nuclear stands for nucleus, atom, not for radiation or radioactive decay... In German language is called "Kernspintomographie", "Kern"=nucleus or nuclear, and people happily use both the word and the device.