it basically creates a 3D image of whatever in your body they choose to look at.

Most likely your entire head.

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magnetic resonance imagery.  

it basically creates a 3D image of whatever in your body they choose to look at.

Most likely your entire head.

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this. it's like 70 pages of xrays from every angle.

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i think a cat scan is your head, but a MRI is your whole body

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They can do an MRI on just about any part of the body as well.

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i think a cat scan is your head, but a MRI is your whole body

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Quote: from Tyrant at 2:17 am on Jan. 5, 2009

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i think a cat scan is your head, but a MRI is your whole body

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cat scans and mri's are completely different, and both can be done on pretty much any part of the body or the entire thing. They are both types of imagery, but completely different technology.

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yea but they get to the same street just different ways

They use it in radiology mostly, to show detailed structures of the body, anywhere from the leg joints to the brain.

It's a big machine and you lay on a board that slowly moves you inside of it, it's like a large tube thing.