Allegedly they have the “fastest MRI machine in the state, possibly the country” (according to the receptionist). (Apparently they have a 3T.) True to the receptionist’s word, the technician promised the scan would take 7 minutes, but it only took 5.5.
I’ve had a bunch of tests in the office and they have all kinds of (what seems to me to be) very advanced technology in their basement. However … Their elevator is ancient, slow, claustrophobic and a little scary. Riding it, one wouldn’t anticipate the technology one encounters after.
Anyway, I think it’s pretty funny that they have a sign - mounted at adult eye level - seemingly to provide instructions for someone who’s never ridden an elevator before.
edit: Replaced photo with one with identifying info censored.
Before you are scared to use a MRI now: I can not imagine that they don’t have multiple safeties in place to avoid explosion. I’ve never worked on cryo stuff, but from regularly cooled big machines, there are always redundant measures to avoid the big boom, and where there aren’t, you can identify them by the scary sign and the heavy breathing of the safety officer. And that is for internal stuff, patient/customer facing things are probably treated even more carefully
Oh yeah, sorry, didn’t mean to scare people! Even if it catastrophically explodes, there’s zero chance anything can happen to you. There’s so much stuff between you and the magnet that even the worst case will just damage the machine.
In the event of a quench, there’s no explosion. Just a venting of the (now) gaseous helium. Still don’t want to be in it during, not no actual explosion.