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These days, we've gotten used to scanning stuff to see what's inside. Our bags at the airport, our bodies in MRI machines.

You’ve seen people sliding into the tube of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine on your favorite medical drama, or maybe you’ve been inside one yourself, waiting as the noisy scanner makes ...