Me, Myself and the MRI
Told he has to go to hospital for a scan, Ciaran Tracey must confront his scanxiety and enter the big white electromagnetic tunnel. Little did he know it could talk.
MRI machines are a miracle of modern medicine. A long white tube that can scan inside our bodies, detecting all manner of illnesses. Getting into one though can leave many people anxious. Something called 'scanxiety'.
When it's his turn to lie down and be rolled inside, presenter Ciaran Tracey must confront his claustrophobia and submit to the machine that can see what's inside his body.
His scan becomes a journey through quantum physics, electromagnetism and - most surprisingly - a space age machine that can talk back. This MRI is a little different - even a little sarcastic. Not least when it comes to telling him whats actually going on inside his own body.
Writer & Presenter: Ciaran Tracey
MRI Voice: Hattie Hayridge
Sound Production: Barney Rowntree
Executive Producer: Innes Bowen
MRI sample sounds by Simon Grab & Patricia Bosshard
News clip from ABC News
With thanks to the Christie NHS Foundation Trust (Samuel Curley, Steven Jackson, Victoria Donahue, Amelia Cargo); University Of Manchester Preclinical & Clinical Imaging (Denise Ogden); and Daniel Sodickson (NYU, Function Health).
A Big City Nights production for BBC Radio 4
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- Sun 26 Apr 202619:15BBC Radio 4
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