This question is not a simple answer. Most places have different charges for the same test. Some place can be two to three times higher than others in the same area. In other words the CT may be higher than the MRI at one place, but across town it might be the other way around. You can call and ask for charges. Ask if this is the final price or just the list price. Many places give discounts to people paying cash or who will pay their bill off all at once. Or if you are insured , your insurance carrier may have negotiated a cheaper price. Please keep in mind most people doing the scan and in the radiological area do not know charges but they can help direct you to someone who can help you.
It depends on what the problem with the elbow is. If it is a bone related injury then the CT scan will show more detail but if the problem is with the muscles or ligaments, then the MRI Scan will be more useful.
Yes. It is safe in a CT. Ask about the policy if getting an MRI.
A CT scan or an MRI
Yes. Staples make the CT scan image look different and make it harder to see small changes around that area, but they are perfectly OK to go in a CT scanner machine. Most imaging areas have certain rules about putting patients in an MRI machine with staples. If getting an MRI check with them on their policies.
A CT scan is a computer-assembled set of X-rays taken from different vantage points. The computer can create 3D models of whatever it images, but the nature of X-ray imaging is that it is more effective for denser tissues (bone), than soft-tissues (organs or blood). There are new CT techniques that can help image organs (the heart is of particular interest), but MRI is generally capable of imaging soft tissues with greater detail. MRI is more frequently used for neurological imaging, and can be used to do chemical analysis of tissues (spectroscopy) inside your body non-invasively. Because they use very different means to image, both CT and MRI can 'miss' things that would better show up on the other modality.
It depends on what the problem with the elbow is. If it is a bone related injury then the CT scan will show more detail but if the problem is with the muscles or ligaments, then the MRI Scan will be more useful.
A CT scan is about $300 to $6750, while a MRI scan is $400 to $12,000.
A CT Scan can image an aneurysm without a contrast injection even though it does better with a contrast agent. An MRI will require an contrast agent or an MRI/MRA.
Yes. It is safe in a CT. Ask about the policy if getting an MRI.
A CT scan or an MRI
can be imaged very well with a CT scan or MRI, and benign tumors tend to look different on these tests than do cancerous tumors. Surgeons may order a CT scan, MRI, or scintigraphy
I had a low density undetermed spot by my lower right ear shown on a ct scan of the sinus. What are they looking for to do a MRI of the head.
The classic answer is acute sub-arachnoid hemorrhage.
Diagnosis is usually made by neuroimaging. CT scan or MRI of the brain will show the characteristic abnormality. MRI has better resolution and may detect polymicrogyria or small heterotopias more easily than CT.
A CT scan, yes. An MRI scan- maybe. It will depend on information from the manufacturer of the device you have implanted. Most are not affected by an MRI, but that is up to medical staff to determine.
myelogram, but being replaced by CT scan and MRI's
CT/CAT scan, electroencephalogram (EEG), MRI and PET scan