title: Are quenches dangerous?
abstract: There exists some uncertainty about the hazards which the quenching of a superconducting magnet would present to a subject undergoing an NMR examination. To investigate this problem, a 1.6-T whole-body magnet was quenched with an anesthetized pig lying in the bore. This paper reports our findings which, in the circumstances of this experiment, suggest that the risks are small.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012306:Risk; D013552:Swine