• Question: How is it possible to visualise iron?

    Asked by Adil to Mobeen on 15 Mar 2016.
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      Mobeen Ali answered on 15 Mar 2016:


      We can’t actually see the iron. In MRI, we detect signals from the hydrogen in the body which is mostly in water. To detect the iron, we look for small changes in the signal caused by the presence of iron near the water molecules.

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