Dr. Barry Komisaruk, a Rutgers’ based neuroscientist and his team do a brain scan of a 31 year old female volunteer while she masturbates in an MRI machine at the lab in Newark.

Many MRI machines look like tunnels. The open MRI, which is C-shaped and open on the sides, appeals to patients who are claustrophobic or too large to feel comfortable in the standard machines.

To give us a better idea of what that kind of stuff looks like, Vox compiled snippets of MRI scans that show just what's actually happening inside your body in some everyday (and some NSFW) moments.

MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, is a noninvasive diagnostic test that takes pictures of organs and tissues inside your body. An MRI scan creates highly detailed images that help doctors diagnose ...

Video of a woman giving birth in an open MRI machine is giving the world a first-ever glimpse of what childbirth looks like from the inside.Researchers hope the MRI video will provide new insight ...