Quotes about mri (16 Quotes)


    When we heard anecdotally that there was a device out there that might be able to detect cancer at its earliest stages, before it even shows up on an MRI magnetic resonance imaging, it was something we wanted to pursue.

    I had gotten back from a skiing trip and I was numb on one side of my body, I was going to a sports medicine doctor and he said there's nothing that makes you numb all that way on one side and so he sent me to neurologist and immediately did a MRI.

    We report for the first time the ability to monitor single immune cells in a live animal using MRI. This could revolutionize the management of transplant patients.

    If you had an auto accident and you came here and had an MRI and stored your image and your physician is in California, the physician would have access to the image through the Internet,



    He said that eventually there could be some arthritis, ... I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now.

    It is a digital enhancer for the MRI, CT and ultra sound. It allows better analysis for both technicians and physicians and also allows us to e-mail slides to other physicians or if a radiologist is not on duty at the time the test is performed.


    There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.

    He got a great (recent) MRI report. My suggestion is to see how it goes. That would be my advice. Not to rush back. But not to make any quick decisions and see how it goes. Because you can never tell what happens in a month.

    He went to get an MRI and check it out. It could be his forearm, and it could be his elbow. We don't know. He has had that elbow reconstructed in the past, so he knows his body.

    We were lucky that the pediatrician caught it and ordered the MRI, ... It's a radical procedure. There's an ear-to-ear incision. But you have to do this or the brain isn't allowed to develop. After the surgery, there were plates and screws in his head, and he had to be on his back for two months. But it sure as hell beat the alternative.

    It's getting a lot of attention because I had to get an MRI. It's not really that bad. I'm not really concerned baseball-wise, I just would like to have it feel normal or somewhat normal.

    Children and seniors can both benefit from brainteasers because research has shown that when looking at the brain through an MRI or a CAT scan, brainteasers actually cause the neurons to fire faster, therefore increasing brain activity.

    Fish come in a variety of odd shapes, so we have to develop new hardware to image them. Engineer Larry May at our center is building special coils for fish. We are also working on new ways of collecting data, since fish tissue can be very different from the tissues we typically image. By tailoring the technology we will further optimize our use of MRI, whether we're imaging cardiac muscle, brain tissue, cartilage or fish.

    I don't have an answer yet. I haven't sat down with the doctors since I had the MRI. It's something I'll ask. Is there a reason Is there a cause Could it be a thousand variables that led up to it or is it one specific thing I'm sure there's not one answer. Will I ever know I don't know.



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