Hardcore Recycling: Using Old MRI Magnets in a Physics Lab

When magnetic resonance imagination ( MRI ) image scanner reach the conclusion of their lifetime , hospitals have to deal with a large piece of electronic waste , scarf out with potentially serious division . Unless a physics research lab can make utilisation of them .

In the pic above you may see an honest-to-goodness MRI magnet , one of the most valuable part of a toss aesculapian equipment . But this one wo n’t end up in a landfill , but see a new house in cat’s-paw used in high-pitched - energy and atomic physics experiment . Argonne National Laboratory explainswhat will happen :

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy ’s ( DOE ) Argonne National Laboratory late take on two decommission magnets from ( MRI ) digital scanner from hospitals in Minnesota and California . The two new magnets have a persuasiveness of 4 Tesla , not as strong as the newest generation of MRI magnet but idealistic for benchmarking experiment that exam instruments for the g minus 2 ( “ g-2 ” ) muon experimentation currently being assembled at the DOE ’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . The Muon g-2 experimentation will practice Fermilab ’s powerful accelerators to search the interaction of muons , which are short - live particles , with a unattackable magnetic field in “ empty ” infinite .

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