Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility

Re:Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility by hatsunearu on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:38AM (#18336872)

Wow, that's a really insane and cool phenomena. I should keep this in my memory in case I encounter it in my career.

Also, if there was enough helium to contaminate the entire atmosphere, was there not a pretty significant chance of an asphyxiation hazard?

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Re:Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility by alxlaz on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:39AM (#18346608)

I don't think there was. It's not like people figured out today that bad quantities of helium can be bad, and that big tanks have big quantities of helium, so MRI rooms are routinely equipped with oxygen sensors (see e.g. https://www.pureairemonitoring.com/oxygen-o2-monitor-for-mri... -- not affiliated, it's just the first result on Google). If the spill had been significant, these would have definitely caught it.

Besides, an MRI's liquid helium tanks are big, but not that big to cause trouble if they leak over a period of a couple of hours in a ventilated room.

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Re:Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility by loco5niner on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:27PM (#18347625)

"Hey Bob, you ok? You're talking kinda funny".

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