A different way to spend the day

[paulr]

Congratulations on the promotion

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I had a TIA about 6 yrs ago, they found I was diabetic...but I feel fit and still walk to most places locally - enforced atm as wrote me car off last July ! 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Congratulations on the promotion.

[Leon]

Hope you're OK Peter and let us know how the scans go.

[pierre the shy]

Went and had MRI scan today....they were behind schedule so I got to watch Ellen and Tipping Point on the reception area TV since I was divested of all metal prior to going into the scanner itself.

Quite a confined space to go into for 15 minutes for the actual head scan, and not move..... 

Will be told in next day or so what they found, if anything....but they said it was more of a precautionary scan than them looking for something in particular.

[Techno]

Quite a confined space to go into for 15 minutes for the actual head scan, and not move..... 
Will be told in next day or so what they found, if anything....but they said it was more of a precautionary scan than them looking for something in particular.

I tried to go to sleep in the MRI.....But the racket those machines make stopped that plan. (I think I said when I had my scan, it was like being inside a tractor engine, which was on the point of falling apart.)

Fingers and everything else crossed for you, Peter.

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

Hoping it is good news

[Steve J]

I've had a few now and the noise is incedible, even with head 'phones on. The worst one was having to listen to Ken Bruce on Radio 2 whilst being scanned!!! Figners crossed that the results are all OK.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I tried to go to sleep in the MRI.....But the racket those machines make stopped that plan.

Fingers and everything else crossed for you, Peter.

Cheers - Phil

For my scan they asked what music I wanted, Pink Floyd was not a good choice !

[Techno]

I have to admit....I got conned with the MRI scan.

They gave me what I thought was a pair of headphones.....(Oooh... they're going to play me some music, while I'm in this metal tube.....Brilliant.)

No.....They were ear defenders....because of the sodding din from the machine.

The CT machine barely makes a low 'hum' while it's going.....and, for me, those scans were over so quickly, that you'd have never got to the end of any 'pop' song.

(Depends on which Floyd song they played you, Ian. )

Steve.....They must have switched the amp up to 11...... 

Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Twaz 'ard to tell, sumat off t'wall I tink !

[jimduncanuk]

Went and had MRI scan today....they were behind schedule so I got to watch Ellen and Tipping Point on the reception area TV since I was divested of all metal prior to going into the scanner itself.

When I was working in the Dick Vet I installed the IT side of an MRI scanner for horses.

It is an enormous electro-magnet and you had to leave all metal outside the room which was in an animal yard (think posh farm). So that was keys, mobile phone, wallet with credit cards, coins, belt and hearing aids. Still I preferred that to working in the Scintigraphy Scanning room where they inject radio-active dyes into horses. Nothing glowed but you could never be sure of what you were touching.

[Techno]

Twaz 'ard to tell, sumat off t'wall I tink !

Well...I'd have been able to sing along with that...(Wherever they started. )

When I was working in the Dick Vet I installed the IT side of an MRI scanner for horses.
It is an enormous electro-magnet

Stroll on.....That must have been GINORMOUS to get anything up to (and beyond) half a ton of flesh inside.

Must have been a very posh equine vets, Jim.

Cheers - Phil

[jimduncanuk]

Stroll on.....That must have been GINORMOUS to get anything up to (and beyond) half a ton of flesh inside.

Must have been a very posh equine vets, Jim.

Not what you might think Phil.

If you google 'veterinary mri' images you will see a wide variety of scanner types none of which have the whole horse passing through a rotating scanner. Sorry to dampen your imagination although some of them are pretty big in their own right. Even bigger is the Linear Accelerator across the road in its own purpose built building with concrete walls two feet or more thick. The scanner itself is about two and a half tons and the building was constructed around it.

The 'vets' I worked for was 'The University of Edinburgh (Dick) School of Veterinary Sciences at Easter Bush who are a world leading veterinary centre. Some of their clients would pass for 'posh' but many wouldn't some coming from crofts in the north of Scotland but others who are based in places like Dubai. They'll take money from anyone but most of the big bills are covered by veterinary insurance.

But I do agree that traditional MRI scanners are pretty noisy whereas X-Ray and CT scanners are pretty quiet. Ultrasound scanners are completely silent.

[Techno]

Well, Jim.

That's simply just cheating if the whole beastie doesn't have to go in the 'scanner'.  .....Stroll on...That must take a load of 'knock out' drops, to keep them still for a good few minutes, anyway.

(I have had a Google.)

Yes, I can imagine that that would have to be done with some sort of 'insewerance' cover..........Or paid for by some extremely wealthy clients.

Cheers - Phil