Last month, I had to go in for my first MRI. I was needing to have three separate scans performed, which would cause me to need to be in the MRI machine for an extended period of time. I am already a bit claustrophobic as it is, and I'm a bit overweight and have large breasts, so I looked at that little hole in the traditional MRI machine and could feel the panic rise in my chest. "There's no way my boobs are fitting through that tiny hole. What if I get stuck? I won't be able to move. No! No way!" Now, reality says that the hole's measurement was more than enough to accommodate even my large breasts, but that's not what my brain was telling me when it screamed: DANGER! What Is a Traditional MRI? A traditional MRI is a type of machine that scans the body using magnets, thus the name Magnetic Resonance Imaging. A traditional MRI has a tube that is a bit larger than the length of an average human body, and a table that extends in front of t...