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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by jjoonathan on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:28PM (#25934216)
Pets tend to be smaller than humans, so manufacturers could ensure that pet MRIs don't drag down human MRI prices by making smaller MRI machines that only work for pets. They probably do.
Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by mattkrause on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:11PM (#25934779)
There are "small animal" MRI machines, which are mostly intended for research.

The bores are really small: 55mm or so is not uncommon, so a mouse would fit, but nothing much bigger. Other animals are usually scanned on a machine meant for humans (sometimes even the exact same ones, very early in the morning or late at night).

Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by Kalium on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:31PM (#25934241)
Tend to be, but it's not that rare for someone to have a dog that's a hundred pounds and five feet long. That's in the range for an adult human.
Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by jrowley on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:38PM (#25934342)
My dad, a radiologist once had patient that was so large that they couldn't fit them on a conventional CT scanner. Luckily this was a university town, so they were able to access the vet's large animal scanner.
Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by Kalium on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:39PM (#25934348)
Makes sense. Horses and cows get much larger than humans!
Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by jjoonathan on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:53PM (#25934517)
I suppose that does make sense.

Re: the large patient, yikes!