Patient protection procedures

This section provides the step-by-step instructions for working safely in a magnetic field environment. Specifically, it describes how to:

Important: You should understand the following definitions before continuing:

A substance that is ferromagnetic has a large positive magnetic susceptibility, meaning it is very easily magnetized (example: iron).
An item that is ferrous can posses intrinsic magnetic fields and become a projectile in an applied magnetic field (examples: iron, nickel, and cobalt).