every breath you take...

..is very important to get a great scan result.

Not the most cheerful  news from T yesterday so the team is being assembled and we will see what happens next.
First time MRI for me and a lot of breath holding and staying very still inside a tube that sounds like R2D2 gurgling, bleeping and chattering  on steroids.

An MRI is noisy because its magnetic field is created by running electrical current through a coiled wire—an electromagnet. When the current is switched on, there is an outward force all along the coil. And because the magnetic field is so strong, the force on the coil is very large.
When the current is switched on, the force on the coil goes from zero to huge in just milliseconds, causing the coil to expand slightly, which makes a loud "click." When the MRI is making an image, the current is switched on and off rapidly. The result is a rapid-fire clicking noise, which is amplified by the enclosed space in which the patient lies.

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