On 25 Feb 1997 05:49:54 GMT, "Adam Reed" <arreed at erinet.com> wrote:
>There does seem to so question as to the effect of magnetic imaging. Just
>try and get an MRI on a pregnant women. All the MRI facilities in my area
>refuse to do one on a pregnant patient and the reason that was given was
>that "they do not know the long term effects of the MRI." There seems to
>be a question as to gamma radiation being produced from the patient during
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>an MRI.
>
Utter nonsense. Gamma radiation is produced either through isomeric
transitions or positron-electron annihilations. There is no physical
mechanism in NMR (MRI) to do this.
