An MRI can look at other things besides the heart, and new uses are being discovered all the time! Sports medicine can use an MRI scan to inspect damage to the soft tissues (ligaments and tendons) around a football player's elbow or a soccer player's ankle or a sprinter's knee.

MRIs can also detect cancer at earlier stages of development than many other forms of medical imaging, and can show disease or damage to parts of the brain for people who have Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Chorea, Multiple Sclerosis, and Alzheimer's Disease. Find out what an MRI machine looks like, and to learn how it feels to be scanned by one.