EP52 - Magnetic Resonance: How We Learned to Listen to the Body’s Water

You lie still in a narrow tube, surrounded by a deafening, rhythmic clanging, while a machine sees through your skin and bone without ever touching you. It feels like magic, but it is actually a symphony of quantum mechanics and superconducting magnets. In this episode, we deconstruct the MRI to reveal how we trick the water in your body into singing a song that a computer can turn into a map of your insides.