A few years ago during my senior year of high school, I was participating in one of the final basketball games of my high school career when I landed wrong on my knee. Immediately, I felt the worst pain of my life and I knew something was not right at all. I was taken to the hospital where our trainer and my family doctor began to bend and pull on my knee. This is standard procedure to get an idea of what may be wrong. After that the doctors took me to the x-ray room where they took pictures of my knee. After they were done evaluating my knee, they came to the conclusion that I probably had just sprained my knee and that I would be able to play in the last games. To be safe my dad took me to a sports doctor to see if they could get a better idea of what was wrong with my knee. These sports doctors recommended that I get an MRI done on my knee, so I did. I was a little nervous because I had heard that MRI's were not that much fun. When I arrived at the office, I was placed on a long table and slowly slid into a giant cube like structure that was very noisy. I was told that I had to hold still for increments of six and seven minutes while they took pictures of my knee. In the end, the MRI told me what the x-rays and trainers could not, that I had torn ligaments in my knee. MRI is used more and more today because they are able to look inside the body, where x-rays can only see bone and some flesh. MRI scanners are very important because they help doctors to be able to see what their eyes and other machines cannot see. .
WHAT IS AN MRI.
MRI scanners have not been around for all that long. The first time a MRI was ever use was July 3, 1977. Three doctors, DR Raymond Damadian, Dr. Larry Minkoff, and Dr. Micheal Goldsmith worked for seven grueling hours to obtain the first pictures, and they were not considered all that good to begin with. (www.howstuffworks.com) They name of the original machine was called "indomitable" because of the struggle that the doctors went through, and because they achieved what many doctors and scientists said was unachievable.
