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Old 05-06-2020, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut View Post
The medical instrument industry got smart and dropped the "nuclear" from "nuclear magnetic resonance imaging," once they realized that Joe Shmoe would always misinterpret what it was - the magnetic resonance of the nucleus, not nuclear radiation.
I work in that industry, and I don't see it in advertising/customer facing documents, but some of our proceedures and regulations documents are still keeping the nuclear in NMRI alive and well...
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