@stux Very impressive, but it does make me a little sad.
We are capable of making amazing and clever machines (like a CT scanner) to assist doctors and the medical profession, but spend the money and effort on horrible machines (tanks, missiles, guns) that mean that doctors and surgeons are required.
You can also put it differently - you need tanks and missiles to prevent these clever machines to be taken apart for scrap metal, as we see Russian looters doing in Ukraine :)
@qotca@stux I might have gotten it wrong. I did some searching TM and there are some very similar looking MRI machines but also CT machines. Apparently with the modern MRIs the non-superconductive coils are nowhere near as visible as they were with the really old ones.
So I'm not sure anymore ^^'
@stux@qotca one pointer could be that it does not have a helium vent pipe but I heard that modern ones recover almost all of the helium in case of a quench so this also isn't a reliable way to tell
@stux@qotca also many results on google image search seem to be wrong. most results for "MRI without cover" that have visible part numbers are CT scanners...
@stux@qotca Ah. Should've thought a bit more about it... MRIs should not need to rotate (they don't have a reason to due to their completely different working principle as far as I know) so this most likely is a CT scanner
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