A Brazilian man has passed away from injuries he received last month when a concealed handgun he was wearing discharged near an operating MRI machine, shooting him in the abdomen.
to have instructed both de Novaes and his mother to leave all metal items outside of the scanning room as a matter of standard procedure.
The reason for this simple act is fairly straight-forward. To image a body, an MRI uses anywhere from 1.5 to 3.0 tesla of magnetism to force the protons in water molecules to point roughly the same direction. So 3 to 7 tesla isn't Earth-shaking. But it is plenty enough for large ferromagnetic items – those made of material that react relatively uniformly in a strong magnetic field – to be given a good pull.in 2001 caused fatal head injuries in a child when an MRI dislodged a metal oxygen tank from across the room.
As an advocate for gun ownership with thousands of followers on his social media accounts, de Novaes was clearly no stranger when it came to handling a firearm. According to police records, he was licensed to carry it, and the weapon was registered.
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