Comment Re: good use of grant money (Score 3, Interesting) 49
They do the scans on Sunday night when they are no patients ( I've been a subject in other experiments).
But apart from that, if you think that there's no medical value to this research, you need to sit back and do something that enhances your imagination. They've also studied how cancer patients swallow. Besides the vocal tract, the heart is another organ that needs real time mri, so it's no gimmick.
Also this research was from USC, not UCSD.