All About MRI’s
OK Let’s Learn

All About MRI’s

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202619 min
  • Health

The magnetic resonance imaging machine- the magic that allows doctors to see inside our body. OK Let’s Learn about it’s history, what X-rays and CT scans couldn’t do that the MRI solved and how exactly does it work? Reach out for questions, feedback and future episode suggestions: [email protected] Go to our new website- okletslearn.com Support the podcast and be named a producer of the show here at this Patreon link: www.patreon.com/okletslearn OK Let’s Learn Substack page:</p...

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Welcome to the OK Let's Learn podcast. This is a family-friendly podcast where we dive into books, stories, science, history, and tons of different topics. My name is Kevin O'Keeffe, so today, OK, let's learn all about the MRI machine. MRIs, yes. Magnetic, resonance, imaging, say that a whole bunch of times. That's why we call it an MRI.

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If you need to look at what's inside our body, you can't just do it with x-rays. Yes, the x-rays will take a look at our bones, but if you want muscles, tendons, ligaments, oh my goodness, If you want to see any different organs in our body to see if we have any disease, disorder, whether it's cancer, tumors, anything, we cannot do that unless we have an MRI machine.

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So, okay, let's learn. This machine uses a powerful magnet. It uses radio waves and it uses a computer to take these detailed pictures inside of our body. They're obviously useful for everything that I've mentioned and particularly muscles. And here is why again I'm doing this episode. I had to go for an MRI. Yes, they looked at my x-ray and up you gotta go for an MRI. This

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