[kaffeinecoma]

Paranoid patient question: when one goes for an MRI, is there any kind of scan for foreign metal objects? I'm sure they ask if you have any devices implanted, but do they actually check for the unexpected? What would happen if you had one of these little bristles and you didn't know it?

[jshevek]

I'm not aware of any such scan, and I'd feel a lot safer if there were such a tool. I simply can't be sure if I have any embedded metal fragments, and do not want to discover this by having any such pieces rip through my body.

[DDickson]

My father has worked with metal his whole life. If just a tiny sliver of metal shaving landed in his eye and worked it's way around to the back, an MRI would tear it straight through the eye ball.

[thesimon]

>when one goes for an MRI, is there any kind of scan for foreign metal objects?

No.