Thursday, March 17, 2016

The inside of a CT Scanner is Surprising

Many people are afraid of MRI just because they feel the seclusion and hear voices of the magnetic gradient that are pretty noisy by the way. A claustrophobic person might never be able to enter the MRI chamber, that led to the emergence of many although less powerful but opened MRI machines. 

I ask why people are not of the CT scanner?

Where if it was seen from the inside it will be looking like a big machine that spines in hyper speeds around the patient's head or body, but the answer to my question is simple they don't see the machine they see its cover and it looks rather appealing from the outside, and no one imagines that it looks or does what it does. 

I have seen surprise impressions on the faces of many regular people how were describing their feelings in MRI, that were generally full of fear and bad mood, compared to their good relaxed feelings when speaking about how they felt after they did a CT scan. 



This is how the same CT scanner looks when closed 


Where when a CT scanner, when opened, the look is pretty much less peaceful, if you know what I mean!
GE 16 slice bright speed scanner

Yes they were surprised when I showed them how a CT scanner spines around and they almost all asked what if something goes wrong? and most of them concluded by themselves that a CT scanner is ought to be more horrifying than an MRI after they now know that it rotates very fast. 

The feelings changed after they knew more about the machines, but at the same time. Some children hospitals also changed their child patient's behaviors simply by making MRI rooms more child appealing, to a certain extent that children were now looking forward to entering the MRI room soon! to explain it better you might also like to read about the story Doug Dietz with who is the principal GE designer for more than 20 years.

So which is more frightening to you the MRI or the CT? Did you know that the CT spins around in such a way? Tell us what you think about this in the comment section below.

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