Long Island man dies after being pulled into MRI machine by heavy metallic chain worn during allegedly unauthorized entry into the scan room. A man died in Westbury, N.Y., after being pulled into an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man who was violently sucked into an MRI machine by a metal chain around his neck has died, police in New York said. The man was ...

CT Scans use X-rays for quick bone and Injury Imaging, While MRIs use magnets for soft tissue detail.

*A routine knee scan at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island, turned fatal when Keith McAllister, 61, was pulled into the MRI machine by the force of its magnetic field. As The Independent reports ...

The 61-year-old man was wearing a “large metallic chain” around his neck when he went into a room on July 16 at the Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York, The New York Times reported. He was ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine's most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the body—including brain regions and delicate structures of the eye and orbit that ...