Subject: RE MRI safety?? (Stone)(Bjorgvinsson)(Bowman)..
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 114927 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......This IS getting complicated.....
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:40:36 -0500
From: "Bowman, Joseph D."
To: "'Roy L. Beavers'"
Subject: RE: MRI safety?? (Stone)(Bjorgvinsson)..
There are two big problems with the idea of a placebo scan:
1) switching the "gradient" magnetic fields off and on makes a very loud
noise (like a jackhammer) and perceptible vibration. To "blind" the patient
to the magnetic field, those would have to be simulated somehow.
2) the very high DC field is produced by a superconducting magnet which
must stay on constantly. A test of sensitivity to the DC field might be
devised by having the patient spend time at different distances from the
MRI. To keep the patient blinded, the test would have to use rooms close to
an MRI that the patient was not previously familiar with and did not have
other clues that the MRI was close.
Given the maze of psychological and physiological interactions operating in
sensitivity, designing should a test would be very tricky.
Joseph Bowman, Ph.D., C.I.H.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roy L. Beavers [mailto:rbeavers@llion.org]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:00 AM
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Subject: Fw: MRI safety?? (Stone)(Bjorgvinsson)..
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:17:23 -0000
From: "[iso-8859-1] Valdemar Gísli Valdemarsson"
To: Roy
Subject: Fw: MRI safety?? (Stone)..
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From: Baldvin Bjorgvinsson
To: Valdemar Gísli Valdemarsson
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: MRI safety?? (Stone)..
> To
> Janet Stone,
> Loveland, CO
>
> The MRI works using a extremely strong electromagnetic field. It is a
> great machine but sometimes people worry and talk about if it might
> be dangerous using this strong EMF. My suggestion for you is that
> there is only one way to convince the staff working on the machine
> and your insurance company.
>
> Participate in a placebo scan (you are run through the machine whit
> out knowing if you are being scanned). For instance you are run
> through three to five times but only scanned on one of the runs. You
> must not have any knowledge of which run is the real one. This will
> refute the opinion of the insurance company that you refuse to
> participate. It will also tell if it is the scan or your mind that
> causes what you felt. The mind is a powerful thing and can have
> enormous effect on the body -automatically. Panic attacks can also
> happen in our sleep. We all remember waking up (from a dream) scared
> to death in a panic attack. That is what they mean, you can have a
> panic attack in your sleep. Have the staff working on the machine
> standing ready when your body reacts to the field, stopping in time.
> I doubt that connecting you to earth would change anything, but you
> can try it is easy, any electrician can do it. Just use a wrist strap
> like computer repair people use to earth them selves. But ask the
> maker of the MRI first if it is safe.
>
> My suggestion is that your genetic defect, which causes intracellular
> calcium to build up, is the real problem. The electromagnetic field
> seems to trigger an opening of calcium flow through cellular
> membranes somewhere in your nervoussystem. It causes a strong signal
> in the nervous system causing a lot of muscles and other things
> controlled by the nervoussystem to overreact. It also seems like an
> explanation of your sensitivity to electromagnetic fields.
>
>
> People with unusual reactions to things tend to stay away from them
> and so the reality does not come in to the open among doctors and
> scientists.
>
> Remember that all ravens are black, -that is usually, some of them are
white.
>
>
> Baldvin Bjorgvinsson, Hlegerdi 16, 200 Kopavogur, Iceland
> Master of Electromechanism, Psychology student, University of Iceland
> Scientifically interested in the biological effects of Electromagnetic
Fields
> GSM: 354-897-3227, Voice: 354-564-3227, Fax: 354-554-3227
> Homepage: http://www.hi.is/~baldvinb Email: baldvinb@binet.is
>
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