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August 8, 2003

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Hospital prankster slips a cadaver -- presumably "sleeping" -- into the MRI unit for imaging of the brain or torso. Would the technicians necessarily notice?

    A. Assume a "fresh" body was found, on its way to the morgue, no missing parts, no strange-looking fluid pockets, no chemical preservatives pumped in yet that might make some tissues show up abnormally bright or not at all, poses University of Wisconsin medical physicist emeritus James A. Sorenson.


     
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