Nuke Trivia
by Neutron on Mar.20, 2005, under Trivia
Everyone has heard about MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
But do you know that a part of the actual term was dropped in forming this acronym ?
Hint : Read the title. Answer coming up soon …
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March 23rd, 2005 on 4:22 AM
what is that?
March 23rd, 2005 on 7:20 PM
yeah well. since you are the only guy who even tried, i’ll break the answer.
“Nuclear” ! It is actually NMR Imaging but people thought that the word Nuclear would make it unpopular in the medical industry for whatever reason, maybe its just because people dont want to deal with radiation everyday, and so the term was dropped and shortened to MRI.
Nuclear applications in medical science is huge now and everyday people are being treated with it, knowingly or unknowingly.
Well its nothing big but surely something to know about.
March 29th, 2005 on 7:29 AM
cool. Never knew that this word cud make the whole thing infamous.
March 29th, 2005 on 7:30 AM
last week, I have been to Manipal hospital. I saw a big room with the label ‘Nuclear Medicine’. Was wondering what they could be doing and thot I shud ask u.
March 29th, 2005 on 2:47 PM
dey demi, glad to be of help !
the nuclear medicine could be anything ranging from chemotherapy to tumour detection to destroying the tumour in any part of the body. It would surely involve radioactive isotopes to generate gamma or other high energy radiation to destroy the cancer cells. As of now, nuke medicine has its uses only in the cancer side and for other detection techniques in medicine. So could be either one of the above.
March 30th, 2005 on 12:01 AM
Wow! Didn’t think that Nuclear radiation can be this controlled and focussed to the extent that it can be used to remove specific parts. Probably I subconsciously associated the term ‘Nuclear radiation’ to fission/fusion reaction radiations.. the nuclear bomb/nuclear reactor types, I mean.