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MRI BRAIN SCANNERS

2. MRI is short for "magnetic resonance imaging".The
MRI scanner does not use any x-radiation or
ionizing radiation like x-rays or a Cat Scan does.
To get pictures of your brain, the MRI scanner uses
very strong magnet, and radio-frequency antennas
to spin tiny atoms inside your body to help them
send "signals" back to more antennas that will
listen for those signals. The MRI scanner then send
the analog wavelengths to computers to convert
them to digital signals to create computerized
images which will create highly detailed images of
your brain.

3. The time it takes to make these pictures
is longer than a quick snapshot, because
the tiny atoms spin for a few minutes to
create each set of images. The patients
do not feel anything during the pictures
other than the vibration from the
machine.

4. The MRI Scanner is a very high powered magnet that creates
a controlled magnetic field that the patient goes into for the
exam. We live in a magnetic field on the earth which is about
0.4 to 0.5 Gauss, or a half Gauss field. There are different
field strengths of MRI systems out there in the marketplace.
Most Open MRI scanners were low field systems a decade
ago, but now many of the higher field systems are called
Open even if they are shaped like a donut, with a hole. The
MRI manufacturers have created a bigger hole in the center
of the magnet for the patients to go into. Some of those holes
are around 70 centimeters across.

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6. WITHIN THE PAST SIX TO SEVEN YEARS,
THERE ARE NOW WHAT ARE CALLED ULTRA
HIGH FIELD WHOLE BODY MRI SCANNERS
THAT RANK AROUND THE 3.0 TESLA
RANGE, AROUND 60,000 TIMES STRONGER
THAN THE MAGNETIC FIELD THAT WE
NORMALLY LIVE IN. MORE OFTEN THAN
NOT, THE 3.0 TESLA SCANNERS GIVE
BETTER PICTURE QUALITY FOR MRI BRAIN
STUDIES BECAUSE OF THE FIELD
STRENGTH AND SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO
OF THE IMAGING.

7. YOU WILL ALSO NEED TO BE
"SCREENED FOR METAL AND
PACEMAKERS BEFORE YOU
GO INTO THE MRI EXAM
ROOM" FOR SAFETY
PURPOSES.NO MATTER WHICH
FIELD STRENGTH YOU
CHOOSE TO HAVE YOUR MRI
BRAIN STUDY PERFORMED ON,
WE HOPE THAT YOU KNOW
MORE ABOUT MRI BRAIN
SCANNERS.

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