Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Adventures in Medicine - part 9 - the MRI

We go to the imaging place, this time at a place a little nearer our house.  All the other places so far have been about 20-25 minutes away.

MRIs are interesting.  They're very noisy - Mr. technician said they were around 120db, around airplane engine loud.  So I had earplugs and 2 inch thich (ish) pads around each ear.

I spent most the time either trying to code in my head, or analyzing the patters of the beats in the noise.

We did lumbar back, then brain, then he added an IV (a real IV this time) for contrast, and did brain with contrast, then lumbar with contrast.

We got the imaging data on CD for fun for later.

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