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Simply? Yes. Removable dental work like a brace should be taken out prior to an MRI scan as they might be affected by the magnetic field. Permanent dental work containing metal may affect the image quality around the area where it is situated but it won't cause any problems apart from that.

As always, any questions relating to MRI safety should be checked with the radiographer or technician undertaking the scan prior to entering the MRI room.

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Every medical implant is provided to the hospital / surgeon with a card that positively identifies what it is, who made it, and when. If your surgeon provided you with this implant card (he or she should have), it should have all the information that the MRI center needs to determine whether it's safe to scan you.

If you don't have this card, contact the surgeon / hospital that implanted the metal in your leg and see if the operative notes positively identify the implant (they should).

Share any and all information you get about the implant with the MRI staff so that they can work with you to determine if it's safe for you to have an MRI.

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iam going thru same thing, i slipped on ice and fell in my employers parking lot on the

way to his accountant. my employer is fighting my case and my lawyer is having a court hearing. iam also under court order to take care of all the things related to my employers

job. so i think that is why he is fighting this case, good luck

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Raymond V. Damian.

MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) or as it used to be called NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) has nothing to do with nuclear energy or nuclear radiation. but yes it is nuclear, it has to do with nuclear magnetism.

A strong magnet lines up the magnetic fields of the nuclei in the atoms of your body then a radio pulse flips those magnetic fields and by measuring how long the magnetic fields of nuclei in various parts of your body gyrate and take to settle back in alignment with the external field they can compute a picture.

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The best way to find a job in the MRI network is to inform yourself on portals such as indeed, careerbuilder, mrinetwork or even try out one of the famous job portals such as Monster.

Mostly health care costs would skyrocket. In addition to the direct cost of the MRI's would be the cost of all of the follow-up imaging, biopsies and other procedures, doctor's visits and other tests to investigate the mostly benign abnormalities found.

It is not clear that there would be any benefit in exchange for this cost and it is quite possible that it may be detrimental due to the side effects of the additional unneeded testing and procedures.

Even if not directly detrimental to the individual being screened it would likely be detrimental to the society as a whole when you consider that other services would likely be forgone in order to pay for it. For instance, since insurance would be more expensive fewer people would be able to afford it and so would not get health care for things like treating high blood pressure, Pap smears and flu shots that have been proven to be beneficial.

That inventor (no false modesty here) was Raymond Damadian himself, a medical doctor who, in June, 1970, used the technique of nuclear magnetic resonance -- now called magnetic resonance or MR -- to distinguish healthy tissue from cancer in mouse specimens.

In March, 1971, Damadian established -- for the first time -- a medical application for MR (see "Tumor Detection..." in the bibliography). The experiment showed that cancer gave off different signals than healthy tissue under magnetic resonance, and Damadian concluded that MRI would become valuable in diagnosis. "The results suggest that this technique may prove useful in the detection of malignant tumors."

At that point, MR, then called nuclear magnetic resonance, had been a tool for physicists and chemists, and it had an honored history: the 1937 discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance won the 1944 Nobel Prize for PhysicE; the 1952 prize recognized advances in the field

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Peritenosynovitis is inflammation around a tendon sheath.

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Many things, most common is anemia. Differntial is multiple myeloma, mets, leukemia, and myelofibrosis. Findings have to be correlated with patient history and labs.

Yes, you still need to have a pap smear. An MRI done to check for a slipped disc is not testing for the same things that a pap smear tests for, nor is it looking at the same areas of the body.

A pap smear is designed to find changes in the cells of your cervix. These cells are very small, and such changes would not show up on an MRI.

The safest way is to not perform the test at all. Unless the dental works are easily removeable or if the set is aluminium, it is impossible. Remember, an MRI is a magnet, and the magnet is ALWAYS on. If the was administered, the force that the magnet would pull the person's mouth to the magnet, would be fatal. --- That's not true - I've seen an MRI image of an individual with a fixed brace on their mouth. As long as it is firmly attached to your body, (for example a fixed dental brace) or even a metal replacement joint, you're perfectly safe. The question, however, is why you're asking this to complete strangers with no credentials. Hope this helps x

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alot depending on where they work and their skill and or training level, also weigh in the companys benefits

X-rays use what are called X-rays...that was a given but MRIs use magnetic pulses instead of the X-rays. The difference is that the X-rays don't pass through bone (so you see the bone) and the magnetic pulses penetrate the entire flesh but bounce off every cell. This shows what the inside of the person looks like.

No, CT scans do not usually produce sharper images of soft tissue than those obtained using MRI.

Then you have a good shot at getting an offer. It is not guaranteed, however. You may not be the only or the best qualified applicant.