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7:26 pm
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July 28, 2010
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I thought this is an important thing to pass on:
On IFI danielpiotte started a thread warning people to to get an orbital exray against the possibility of metal in the eye area prior to getting an MRI.
I agreed and posted the following based on my own experience with an ankle injury:
I agree. At least as a minimum make sure that the people taking the MRI know that you work with metal. I bathe/shower daily, LOL (it's funny that I am qualifying this statement with that as a preface) yet when I went in for an MRI on a messed up ankle a few months ago I was giving off artifact echoes in the MRI.
It turns out there was still steel embedded in my socks, So sockless and pantless I had to be for them to look at my ankle. They did end up taking extra long to get the images and some were blurry and had to be repeated, and not because I was moving around.
It could of been a bad thing if it was near the head eyes.
Rashelle
10:38 pm
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March 17, 2012
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Rashelle;16595 wrote: ...warning people to to get an orbital exray against the possibility of metal in the eye area prior to getting an MRI. ...
Some folks have had penetrating objects in the eye and only thought they had a speck outside the eye and it went away or they got it out themselves.
As someone in the business of medicine, the radiology crew should not ask you for permission to take what is called a 'scout film' to look for things like that prior to an MRI. They should ask if you've ever had metallic implants or foreign bodies. They should shoot the scout film and then if cleared do the MRI.
Metal particles, especially those that are magnet responsive materials, inside the vitreous of the eye are particularly problematic when whipped around by the magnets. Metals of non magnetic types are not so much a problem that way but they do cause noise on the films that can interfere with the pictures. The magnets can induce a current and some warmth in some metal implants even while it does not interfere with the desired pictures, but only if they take their sweet time shooting the pictures.
Just more to be aware of...
Mike
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