MRI

High quality metal isnt magnetic so it shouldn't interfere. However, the medical professionals have no way of knowing if yours are good quality or not so they'll probably make you remove them:)

It means the muscles, ligaments, and tendons in your lower back are normal on MRI.

This essentially means that some of the bone seen on MRI is not "bright" (like with normally calcified bones), but is darker, possibly, that had been expected. You need to discuss just why this might be so in this case with the ordering doctor... I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, but there are so many reasons this condition might be seen on an MRI, that your doctor will have a better idea of what it might be...

Sorry that your answer hasn't been replied to yet, and I don't know everything about what you are asking but, I know about the lordosis. "Mild" reversal of the cervical lordosis is way better than a complete reversal. The Lordosis is the actual curve in the cervical spine (neck). Normally, the lordosis curves inward toward your throat. If there are changes in the lordosis, it means that it is starting to straighten (first) out to what they call "military neck". I have a complete reversal of the lordosis which means that my cervical spine has lost the complete curve and actually curves the opposite way. This is due to a whiplash injury from a rear-end collision in July of this year. I also have bulging in the same area as you, and problems in T1, T2 & T3. Bulging of the C4-5 is where your cervical vertabre is bulging out of your spine. More than likely due to disk injury. Each vertabre is numbered. There are 7 vertabre in the neck area, each are numbered starting from the joint where they spine and head connect. (Cervical 4 & Cervical 5) The term cervical deals only with the neck. Thoracic deals with the upper back. So, after C7, it then changes to T1, T2 etc. Good luck on your recovery. It's a long road or so I hear to finally get back to normal or close to it!

Balanced FFE (Fast Field Echo) is the Philips name for the bSSFP Balanced Steady State Free Precession MRI pulse sequence. It is very fast (thanks to powerful gradients which recycle the magnetization) and gives high signal images (thanks to spin-echo-like refocusing of magnetization). The generic contrast it yields is T1/T2; that is, fluids and fat appear brighter than other tissue.

Chronic white ischemic changes, and many other similar sounding terms, all relate to the identification of abnormal hyperintense signal foci in the white matter of brain. The number, size, pattern and distribution of the anomalies, as well as the patient demographics and history all contribute to a differential diagnosis, whereby the radiologist reading the exam tries to attribute a cause to the anomalies. Often times, a certain number of anomalies are noted, which when all criteria are considered, seem to be part of the normal spectrum of findings. This is particularly true of older individuals, where it is a common finding. The lesions themselves are not cause for concern, and no treatment per se is necessary.

You would see inside the people and all the problems that are caused by old age would be looked at and could be diagnosed. Plus, new treatments could be discovered aswell.

Yes, it can. MRI is suitable to find any soft tissue pathology (tendon included)

turbo inversion recovery magnitude

means they are unclear and you may need further testing to clarify what the found.

Each year there are over 60 million MRIs done worldwide. 1o million in the US alone. Due to the expense of an MRI and pre certs needed for insurance companies, MRIs are conducted on patients with serious conditions. Multiply these figures for 10 or 20 years it is easy to conclude ---millions of lives have been saved and in improving the quality of life at the same time

Your disc has ruptured (beyond a herniation, which is full displacement) and the pulpous material (like a jelly doughnut) has become free floating within the disc space. Options are spinal decompression if you have nerve pain or surgery as a last resort to scoop away remaining disc material or allow the nerve root to exit the narrowed cavity without aggravation.

There is no pain involved in the MRI. The venous access to inject gadolinium involves a intravenous catheter.

In Denver a Hip MRI with contrast agent at Rose Medical Center Outpatient Imaging was billed at $4645. A PPO plan wrote off $1997, and paid $1718.12, leaving the patient to pay $929.53. Therefore the net cost of the procedure was $2647.65. The cash price at a specialty imaging location is substantially less - as little as $650 with contrast.

Yes, only metal objects cannot go into an MRI. My father invented the Ommaya reservior, he recently passed away. Alex

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The IR in IRMER stands for Ionising Radiation to which the regulation relates. MRI does not employ Ionising radiation so as far as I am aware the regulation doesn't apply to MRI.

Magnetic action on hydrogen ions - is the simplest and shortest answer to this question. MRI is distinct from other forms of radiography in that no radiation is used.

MRI images often provide the best definition of structures. In some cases, contrast enhancement (e.g. with gadolinium) is needed for the best definition (e.g. certain tumors, etc.).

Menningitis,for one.

MRI is a technique using the phenomenon Nuclear Magnetic Resonance [NMR}. NMR was discovered by physicists,Felix Bloch and Edward M Purcell and won Nobel Prize for the same. MRI was later developed by the scientists, Paul Lanterbur and Peter Mansfield.

Absolutely