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Someone please tell me what this is.
A floor buffer stuck to an MRI machine (Which essentially works by using a big magnetic field.)
That’s what they want you to think. It’s fake. The thing is nowhere near the size of an MRI, it’s either a CT scanner or a PET scanner
know-it-all fail: http://www.imagecarellc.com/images/mri.jpg
Sure they faked this, they took their PET/CT room made sure to remove all ferromagnetic objects in the room and then stuck a floor buffer onto the machine with super glue.
And you must be an expert to be able to make the difference between a CT or PET and a MRI.
It’s actually pretty easy to differentiate between the three if you have half a functioning brain. But this is definitely an MRI.
You can indeed easily see the difference between them if you are standing next to it, but to see it from this photograph is a lot harder, especially since they often combine both in one machine nowadays.
AND they’re always white!
But wouldn’t the MRI have to be on and active for the floor buffer to STAY stuck to it? And, if it was on, wouldn’t the camera (which, I believe, either has metal parts or would be subject to electromagnetic interference) either get pulled toward the machine as well or simply not work?
I’m not an expert. I’ve never had an MRI, though I have had several CT scans. I’m skeptical of this photo.
It’s real. The magnet is always on, as the many signs around the department tell you, often in multiple languages. The camera is simply beyond the effective range of the magnetic field, as that particular model has a fairly compact field. You could easily stand at the door and take a picture without losing your camera, and could probably even take one from the end of the bed without issue. Once you got much closer than the thick portion of the scanner table, though, you would probably start to notice the pull.
My lab gets the joy of teaching the fire and police departments basic magnet safety, and I can attest to the plausibility of this photo.
MRI’s and their research cousins, NMR’s, are ALWAYS LIVE. It takes days of labor to safely turn them off. Even if the power is out in the building, even if the power is out in the whole city, the magnet is live. It takes several days and thousands of dollars to safely bring a magnet down or up.
Oh, and the field does drop off quickly enough that you can take a photo of a live magnet. There are many such photos online.
It really is an MRI. I used to work in a hospital. It’s just the angle they took it from.
Thank you Kristen. I hate when people argue over the legitimacy of these photos. It’s just funny.
Can’t you appreciate the juxtaposition of failures failing to comprehend the fail on Failblog?
Actually it is an open MRI. Siemens makes them. I had an MRI in one done yesterday. Looks like the cancer has not returned. We shall see when all tests come back.
But as for the picture – yup – it’s real.
Good luck!
*Yeah*
Faked, I tell you! Just like the pictures, videos, and news accounts of other things stuck in / to MRI scanners that you’ll find here…
http://mrimetaldetector.com/blog/2009/05/fmd-dont-we-have-screening-protocols-for-that/
It’s all a giant underground conspiracy of pranksters…
Yeah, because you are an expert, right?
Wrong. I’ve been a paramedic for 13 years and I take patients back-and-forth for MRIs all the time… the size of these machine varies significantly. Some are open-faced (nice for claustrophobic or obese patients) and others are enclosed. This is a very typical sized MRI, and looks pretty much exactly like the ones here in my city. It seems that someone else has already proven my point though, so I’ll leave it at that.
Absolutely NOT fake! This is a Siemens Magnetom Symphony or Sonata 1.5 Tesla MR system. This type of floor buffer accident has unfortunately happened at many MR facilities due to a lack of education or just plain not paying attention. God help anyone in the path of the buffer when the scanner gets a hold of it.
Well, at least they’d be near a hospital if they were.
Ok, here is a quick MRI lesson for you… Yes that is a MRI, it is called a short-bore, most facilities are purchasing short-bore magnets because it is more patient friendly. There are quite a few accounts of floor buffers causing this kind of damage to magnets as well as hospital beds, oxygen tanks, crash carts, etc. We had a mop bucket fly into our scanner and cause $10,000 worth of damage. FYI
Yes!!! That’s it, you’ve caught them. Someone had nothing else better to do than see how to get a floor buffer to attach to at CT unit. I hope some of you are not imaging professionals.
Bulls**t – I was working at that particular company when that particular event took place. The buffer had been recently repaired and they had used magnetic parts to replace the failed non-magnetic parts. Cost them a fortune to remove it from the bottom of the MRI machine too.
Did they have to turn the MRI off? That would really piss off the people in charge, considering how much energy it takes to start one up…
But don’t all floor buffers contain magnetic parts? After all, buffers contain motors, and motors work by use of magnetic fields.
(Unless its using a pneumatic motor of course… but that looks like a power cord attached to it, not an air hose.)
They’re trying to make it look like an MRI scanner, which is basically one huge magnet. However, being a huge magnet means it’s quite long, which the imager in the image isn’t. My guess is it’s actually a CT scanner
Your guess is wrong. Open MRI. look it up.
Might you
Research
It?
hint…
This is a floor buffer attracted to a 1.5 T MRI system.
I have been an MRI tech for 20+ years and YES this is a very real danger in the MRI area. This IS REAL.
Thanks,
Jeff Sylvester BSRT(R)(T)(CT)(MR)
Thanks, Jeff. Our MRI tech had to stay two hours late last Saturday to supervise the stripping, waxing and buffing of floors in the MRI suite.
Doppler Interrogation, RT(R), RDMS
Hilarious!The machine is a kind of electromagnetic device used in hospitals for imaging (kind of scanner), of course inside is a huge magnet, and the poor guy cleaning the floor has certainly been very surprised to lose the control of his own machine which is now stunk to the magnet!
(sorry for the science but it took me few seconds to understand the fun of the picture!)
floor polisher stuck to mri machine, duh
It’s hard to deny such a strong attraction.
It was an attraction that came out of left field.
RMN Machine
0.5 tesla
Magnetic as hell
MRIs are usually 1-2 teslas, so if that one is 0.5T, then it’s not even the most powerful one out there
Actually 1.5T.
Jeff
…what is an MRI machine doing in the lobby of a building?
Free walk-in scans?
And shoe/bald head buffings.
And shrapnel extractions.
…Lol. I used to work at a hospital and knew someone in the Housekeeping dept (A supervisor showing a new person what to do) who did something like this. The only difference is that it went INTO the MRI machine and totally destroyed it.
You would think that Supervisors would know better.
WHAAAAAAAAT?????? OMG!!!! poor looser, Imagine owing the hospital you work at a couple million dollars…
Some of the comments on this site are fail
Ok guys this IS an MRI.Some of you might only know it has a huge behemoth but MRI got pretty small so yeah this picture is not a fake
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I was told a story by some MRI operators about a false fire alarm in the building. One fireman insisted to check everywhere that there really is no fire – wearing full breathing apparatus, and ignoring warnings that he REALLY wants to avoid that special room with the magnet-field shielding door…
After quenching a MRI magnet (the only way to remove the guy stuck to it) the restart is said to cost more than 10,000 $ for the liquid helium and stuff.
That would be a great picture: fireman stuck to MRI machine.
I know of one episode similar to your firefighter accident story that occurred in Germany.
There are also a couple incidents with the Stocton, California, fire department…
http://mrimetaldetector.com/blog/2010/04/stockton-ca-mris-vs-firefighters-round-2/
There are many others, too.
I think it is staged to demonstrate what can happen.
High Speed Polisher/Buffer like the one shown in the picture have plastic bodies, since they are designed to be lightweight. Thus there will be attraction to the metal parts inside (motor) but not enough to make it very hard to remove it from the MRI.
But the main reason I have doubts about the veracity of this picture is the lack of a pad. It could have been jolted off, but I doubt it. Even if it was jolted off, why was it taken away before the picture was taken?
I had to take an MRI safety course for my anesthesia rotation and they showed multiple floor buffer vs. MRI photos as examples of what not to do. The magnets are incredibly strong and can definitely pick a buffer off the ground.
It wouldn’t even have to be very close to get sucked in. No fooling, these things will pull things to them from more than 10 feet away. I knew one MRI suite where lightbulbs, phones and computers would prematurely fail due to the magnetic field.
I’ve seen the aftermath when a cart used to haul nitrogen and argon tanks got stuck in a MRI magnet (back when we still called it NMR). The cart was left in the hallway just outside the open door, and it seems it just slowly wandered into the room, then picked up speed.
Nobody doubted the veracity of the event on the basis that the cart did not have a tank on it at the time. It’s possible for an object to come close enough to a magnet not just while in use, but while being transported from one jobsite to another. It’s common enough for the cleaning staff to wheel the buffer around with no pad on it till they get to where it will be used.
Doesn’t the MRI machine have to be powered on for the field to attract metallic objects?
The magnet is always on. Once an MRI machine is initially powered up and aligned into field it’s left on. You can turn it off in an emergency (as above), but then you need about a day and $10-20,000 to get it restarted and usable again.
Right–it’s a superconducting electromagnet. It doesn’t require power to maintain the current in the magnetic field once it’s flowing, but if you want to turn it off you have to drain off the energy carefully and avoid boiling off the liquid helium.
Nice, so some illegal alien just cost a hospital about 10-20 grand that it didnt have any way cause they couldnt read the english signs warning about the machince, very funny.
And some idiot managed to embarrass himself by posting an item to Failblog that combines racism and incompetence. Hilarious.
If you’re going to complain about someone’s English, jackass, learn how to write it yourself.
*anyway
*didn’t
*couldn’t
*because (or ’cause)
*English
*machine
And I’m not even going to try to fix the faulty sentence construction.
the MRI doesn’t look damaged, hell, the buffer doesn’t look damaged.
if anything it was a doctor fail for leaving it on or turning it on while the janitor was in there.
Doctors don’t operate MRI machines…Radiology Techs do. Doctors read the films/images.
It doesn’t matter whether the machine is on or off, the big ass magnet would still do the trick.
You don’t turn an MRIs magnet off.
Okay, repeat after me folks:
Superconducting magnets are always on.
Superconducting magnets cannot be turned off.
Even if the power is out in the building, the magnet is live.
Even if the lab is closed, the magnet is live.
Even if the computer controlling it is off, the magnet is live.
Even if the electronic displays are off, the magnet is live.
The. Magnet. Is. Always. Live.
And when you’re dying the magnet will be still alive.
And when you’re dead the magnet will be still alive.
+10 internets for the portal reference
WarHawk:
Illegal aliens don’t have any corner on stupidity…hell, you are doing just fine all on your own. Perhaps it’s stupid people we should start loading up.
ahh.. to work in the imaging center of a hospital again. had to stare at this thing everyday for like 3 years. dont miss that at all. thats an MRI machine if people are still arguing about it. looks to be a Siemens MRI model too.
This is definitely a MRI as the tube is longer. CT tubes aren’t as long because they are a quick scan of spinning x-rays used generally to diagnose an internal injury quickly. CT doesn’t use a magnet either.
Also from personal experience of several times having CT scans and a MRI scan, I know the differences.
Also, they make MRIs in different sizes. They can make them for large people, small people, large animals, and I’ve even seen a mini one for scanning a lizard!
Check out the video for the lizard in the MRI:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/paralyzed-lizard-gets-mri/6p42i8y?tab=m137>1=8618&from=06/64
I should probabably actually watch the video first. This is what I was thinking of and it’s a CT not an MRI
http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-news/2010/03/30/leopard-gecko-scan-vet.aspx
and check my spelling before I post
Any damage? Never mind, that will buff out.
I get several MRIs every year. THAT, sir, is indeed an MRI. My doctor was really cool and funny, so to show me how magnetic it was, he took out a paperclip and let it fly at the machine. He just pulled it off, awesome nonetheless. I would love to know if the janitor was on his first day. They put signs EVERYWHERE about the magnetic field.
Clearly faked
Troll the ancient Yuletide carol. Derp de derp derp derp duh *squeal
* derp DUUUUUHH
If it costs that much to restart why not just let the vacuum cleaner/buffer… stay there?
The presence of that large a magnetic object will destroy the image quality of any scans taken on that machine.
They did for a while, but after the 6th buffer FAIL they could no longer reach the MRI
the metall of the buffer will interfere with the homogeneity of the magnetic field thus destroying the image.
There was a very unfortunate incident a few years back in which a 6 year-old child was killed, as a result of an oxygen tank crushing his skull as it pulled toward the MRI magnet. I’ve had my trauma shears stick to it when I got too close. You also have to leave your credit cards outside the range, or they risk being erased.
Fun with superconductors, yah.
Actually, that is a floor burnisher, not a buffer. There is a difference. Custodians can I get a “hell yeah!” ?
Custodians have the best stories. The best, bar none.
Clearly staged – as equipment is off when not in use
and E-magnet of MRI is not strong enough to support that load
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, that you didn’t read the other comments which – repeatedly – affirmed the basic operational truth of MRI scanners which is that the magnetic field is *always on*.
A good, solid, ‘fridge door’ magnet will have a magnetic field of about 200 gauss (a unit of magnetic energy) at the surface. Contrast that with the most common strength of MRI scanners, which are rated at 15,000 or 30,000 gauss (actually, they use the unit Tesla, which is equal to 10,000 gauss, so more commonly you’ll see these referenced as 1.5 Tesla (T) or 3.0 Tesla MRI scanners).
what is that?
there used to be some pictures nocking about my university of various things a 15t nmr coil had tried to eat in its time, Including a computer on the floor above.. 0.0
Oh, please do share those pictures, if you can!
It is obvious from many comments that a lot of you are unfamiliar with MRIs. I work in a hospital, and let me tell you, this is real and this stuff happens more frequently than any of us would want to admit. I feel sure you can still find accounts of the 12-year-old boy who was killed some years ago when a technician entered the magnet room with a steel oxygen cylinder that got snatched out of his hand and pulled into the magnet center, killing the boy. You’d be shocked at the speed at which a 1.5Tesla magnet can draw in a ferrous object.
it was a 6 year old and an anesthesiologist entered the room… also we are technologists not technicians
Another one of House’s experiments gone wrong.
Sadly I must say one form of entertainment we have is tossing paperclips at the MRI. I have also had it suck the zippo out of my pocket from 15ft away.
And no the cleaning crew does not go near it with anything metal.
Siemens magnets are much more powerful than any of the other MRI manufacturers.
MRI Win
The one in the lab I’m working for is 9Tesla. It’s not for human anyway. For rats.
Never tried to bring anything metallic near it.
^^ DONT, well do but video it for us
I think this is more of an MRI machine win.
F-king magnets! How do they work?!
I work for Siemens Healthcare. I’m just a marketing guy, but this is definitely a MRI. A fairly old one, from the sonata family.
It’s incredible expensive to turn off the eletromagnet, due to the release of the gas that keeps those babies refrigerated.
Its fairly common accident, usually whellchairs or crash carts.
Normally, the objects get pulled to the center of the bore. Its quite a scene, the magnetic field is very strong, although irregular, so it rips the objects form the hands of incautions nurses.
Just search MRI accidents on youtube.
And yes, siemens have very thin and more open bores to pacient confort.
http://www.siemens.com/healthcare
And yes, those magnets are strong enough to pull even the iron in the ink of old tattos. Nasty.
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