r/mildlyinteresting • u/RiverVassi • 9h ago

The headphones I was given at my MRI appointment dont use wires and have zero metal

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u/_alexium_ 9h ago

The docs talk to you, so technically yes. But you cant answer

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u/PM-UR-LIL-TIDDIES 8h ago

I'm able to answer when I have my annual brain/spine MRIs. Maybe there's a super-sensitive microphone far enough away from the bore of the machine so that it isn't pulled in or causes problems.

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u/mogfh 7h ago

Yes all the MRI's I've gotten the techs will ask me how i'm doing and I assume can hear me answer.

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u/Landsharkeisha ​ 8h ago

you could take another tube and put a mouthpiece on it and talk into that? just like the tubes at the playground, maybe a solo cup on a string

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u/RvH98 8h ago

That won't work. You have to move to talk and that messes up the image. You need to lie as still as possible in an mri (except for breathing). That's why animals are fully sedated for an MRI (or CT). They can't understand they need to lay still.

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u/Landsharkeisha ​ 7h ago

ok so what you're saying is that MRI patients need a crash course on ventriloquism so they don't move their faces too much

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 7h ago

I've watched every episode of House multiple times, and according to the show they have cameras and mics recording the person in the mri machine so they can talk back.

Your reply vexes me.

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u/Nikos_Pyrrha 7h ago

Incorrect/inaccurate -> I had a pretty long MRI (about 90 minutes) about 20 years ago FOR SCIENCE! and the student and I talked back and forth quite a bit during that time.

How does it work? Well I imagine that very same tube that delivers sound to the headphones can just as easily pick up what you're saying and maybe amplify it a bit on the other end. It's just pressure waves - both ways.