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Usually (but not always) higher quality stainless steel is not magnetic, while the lower quality is slightly magnetic.

However even slightly magnetic can be a problem in an MRI - and worse, there is no practical way for the MRI tech to tell how the stainless steel will act, so they will err on the side of caution.




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