Your body position is a bit cramped. For half an hour, that's OK.
They warn that it's a tight space, and not for claustrophobes. Close your eyes to keep the lasers out, and you won't notice a thing.
The personalized mask tries to clamp your head into position, pushing on the base of your nose. That gets old in seconds. I don't know about other people, but I felt like I had to be proactive about breathing through the thing; it didn't feel natural or easy.
No surprises, which was good.
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It's been 5+ years since I had an MRI, but I don't remember any lasers or a mask clamping my head down. The mask clamping my head down I remember from radiation treatments for a (benign) brain tumor. Obviously there are new treatment modes I'm not familiar with.
They wanted my head in exactly the same position for the scans as for the treatments. The CT system had lasers--feeble but I don't like having them in my eyes anyway, so I close them. It looked like the MRI did too; I could have mistaken it, though.
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