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For many people, entering the confinement of an MRI machine can be harrowing: Scans can take hours and patients must lie very still in cramped machines that produce deafening sounds.

But a new, high-tech effort aims to ease claustrophobia and deaden the noise to make it less like a scary scan and more like entertainment. 

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