This month we'll have to complete a research paper on a biomedical topic from an engineering viewpoint. That is, how does something related to the biomedical field work? The only thing I needed to know to begin was what to discuss in my paper.
I was watching House on TV the other day with some friends and we were discussing how medical imaging techniques had changed so much over the course of a few decades, and how useful new machines were to diagnostics - the case in the episode was solved thanks to one in particular, the MRI. This is when I started wondering about magnetic resonance imaging, and found it a very interesting topic, so I decided to focus my paper on this subject. In essence, what I want to find out is:
- How does an MRI machine work?
- What are the physics/biological principles that make MRIs possible?
- How was it developed?
- How is it constructed and how does it operate?
- What are its applications?
- Are MRIs safe?
- What is the future of MRIs going to be?
It seems like a pretty interesting subject to discuss, so I'm looking forward to researching how it works and answering my questions!
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