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Originally Posted by dentist90
Is lead, being non-ferrous, affected in a MRI machine? ie, would it be pulled around by the strong magnetic field like steel, or does it just cock up the image?
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Well, at normal levels lead is not magnetic, but with enough of a mag field, almost anything can be affected. I'm not sure that an MRI is strong enough to affect lead. I did see a video of a frog being levitated by a magnetic field. It was a REALLY strong mag field.
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