“He went close to the machine and instead got pulled along with the oxygen cylinder inside the machine. Instead of taking responsibility, the hospital workers scolded us for Rajesh having gone close to the MR machine with the cylinder in his hand,” said Maru’s sister Priyanka Solanki, who was also present in the room.”

An investigation into the matter led to a number of arrests, and the closing of the machine. The hospital has sought money to repair the scanner and has requested a second machine to help with its workload.

The examples listed above demonstrate not just the direction that MR scanners are headed in but the mindset that clinicians must adopt in order to ensure that current and future capabilities of the modality are carried out in in a quality and effective manner that is also safe for patients.

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