I am fortunate to live within a days drive to one of the best University Veterinary Teaching Hospitals in the the US. And yes, they have an MRI, and NO!, they would never, ever accept human patients. They treat many types of animals from all over the Western US; from people's pets to expensive racehorses, to exotic wildlife. Their MRI machine at the time did have a larger bore than most machines so it could accommodate large animals. I provide a link to a 10 year old article and MRI machinery has exponentially improved since this was written and that particular MRI machine has been replaced, no doubt in part by donations from generous alumni.
At least in the US, the University MRI machine would NOT BE STAFFED BY A CERTIFIED MRI TECHNICIAN. An MRI tech gets quite extensive training in human anatomy and an MRI machine needs to be calibrated and inspected frequently to maintain it's safety for use on humans. And then there is the Radiologist who must be available to read the results (though nowadays that is usually contracted out and done remotely and digitally, In fact, there are certain Radiology Groups that are/were subcontracting out their diagnostics to India. Horror.
In the good ole days, it was not unknown for your referring Dr to even request specific Radiologists to take a look at the scans, because those Radiologists were known to excel at catching certain things, but now with Corporate Medicine, digitization and AI, chances are that the tech has never even met the Dr's who read the scans. No doubt, Radiologists at some point will be replaced entirely by AI.
Brave New World, indeed.
Innywho, Anna is fat and I would like to examine her digestive system under a fluoroscope while she swallows Nando's laced with barium, but I would not have sex with her.
Just me?
For anyone still reading this and who maybe interested in Veterinary MRI and the animals who were in the MRI machine at WSU, I provide an autistic link.