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Originally Posted by Gate Keeper
The advantage of a CT scan is that it’s more pleasant for the patient than an MRI. The CT scan can take as little as 5 minutes to do, but each CT emits powerful radiation equivalent to 200 X-rays per session. I hate having a CT scan and can appreciate your anxiety. The MRI builds up images made from magnetism and radio frequency, no radiation is involved, but it’s more noisy and can take up to an hour inside the tube. An MRI is more costly. Next week it’s my turn, I am having a full body vascular scan, no X-rays/no radiation
All the best for today.
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Yes, its gets you worried while they sit in another room safe and sound behind a large window, they talk to you via a two way radio, play you your own choice of music; and hand you a panic button in case you freak-out.
I had a MRI 10 years ago on my back Phil, as they thought I may have a trapped nerve, horrendously noisy as you say. If only they captured my pelvic area and not being so focused on the nerves in the spine, I may have been fixed by now.
Now 10 years later Phil, they are doing what I asked them to do in the first place
The Southampton specialist made a phone call to my wife a few weeks ago, he reckons he's going to get to the bottom of my pain once and for all; lets just hope he does. I have to say, Southampton hospital seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of Bournemouth and Poole hospitals; so far anyway.
