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Biomedical Intelligence
FROM PHYSICS TO PATIENT
Choose the scanner. Plan the room. Train the team.
Independent CT and MRI evidence for the people who choose, sell and service imaging systems.
The problem
Choose, build, run: each step goes wrong.
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Choose
0 of 9
CT and MRI business cases met the auditor's criteria in Victoria, Australia. Seven set no target for use.
SourceVictorian Auditor-General's Office, 2015
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Build
$2.44M
budgeted to build one MRI suite in Iowa, against $1.49M for the scanner and its installation.
SourceIowa Certificate of Need filing, 2026
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Run
100 h
of unplanned downtime a year at the average Canadian MRI site, 3.5 times its planned maintenance.
SourceCanada's Drug Agency, imaging inventory 2022–23
“Choosing an MRI and preparing its room takes more than thirty people and hundreds of pages.”
Where the time goes
The scanner installs in days. The room takes months.
Install the MRI
4–8 days
SourceIPEM et al., MRI planning guidance, 2026
Build its room
13–25 weeks
SourceTexas TDLR project registrations, 2024–26
266–304
pages of one maker's site rules for one MRI
SourceGE HealthCare MR pre-installation documents
2–3 months
lost when planned shielding was not built
SourceIPEM et al. 2026, UK case reports
The physics
An MRI room is a physics problem.
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60,000×
Earth's field, inside a 3 tesla magnet
SourceNOAA; our arithmetic: 3 T ÷ 50 µT
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5 gauss
Pacemaker line: access-controlled inside
SourceICNIRP 2009 · IEC 60601-2-33 (2022)
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Up to 1.5M L
Helium gas in a quench, piped outdoors
SourcePace et al. 2019 · GE venting requirements
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90 dB
Shielding cuts radio power a billionfold
SourceGE RF shielded room requirements
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3–8 t
Magnet weight the floors must carry
SourceEye of Horus planner profiles, 25 systems
Each limit is set by physics, a standard or the maker's manual. Software can check every one, and flag what is missing.