▲ 614 ▼ Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 1 year ago by kebab@endlesstalk.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 252 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (2 children) take hours to start or stop You mean they're in constant operation the whole shift? Surely dialed way down in between scans? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 year ago No, the magnets are just as dangerous when scans aren't happening. They are always on. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) The dectector and the variable field (that induces the localized measurable changes) stop between scans, but the static magnetic field is kept up. As long as you keep up the superconductitvity there is basically no electrical loss in the coils. Dialing the magnetic field down would require pulling out the energy, and reinjecting new energy to get the field back up. That's the slow part, because injecting current quickly would heat the coil above superconductivity, leading to a quench. I'm not sure how energy is withdrawn in the ordinary shutdown procedure, but I expect it is exchanged into heat and vented to the outside air in some way, rather than reinjected into the grid in a usable form. (The latter would require an inverter to turn the DC back into AC synchronized to the grid, probably would increase complexity by too much). So I suspect it would be wasteful too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago i think the easiest way to think about it is like a very well insulated freezer, it takes hours to defrost it and then it takes hours to build the cold back up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 year ago No, the magnets are just as dangerous when scans aren't happening. They are always on. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) The dectector and the variable field (that induces the localized measurable changes) stop between scans, but the static magnetic field is kept up. As long as you keep up the superconductitvity there is basically no electrical loss in the coils. Dialing the magnetic field down would require pulling out the energy, and reinjecting new energy to get the field back up. That's the slow part, because injecting current quickly would heat the coil above superconductivity, leading to a quench. I'm not sure how energy is withdrawn in the ordinary shutdown procedure, but I expect it is exchanged into heat and vented to the outside air in some way, rather than reinjected into the grid in a usable form. (The latter would require an inverter to turn the DC back into AC synchronized to the grid, probably would increase complexity by too much). So I suspect it would be wasteful too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago i think the easiest way to think about it is like a very well insulated freezer, it takes hours to defrost it and then it takes hours to build the cold back up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago i think the easiest way to think about it is like a very well insulated freezer, it takes hours to defrost it and then it takes hours to build the cold back up. permalink fedilink source parent