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Pretty often for cerebral scans you don't have a whole lot of room to move due to being literally restrained by the focusing gear. Most people who have done MRI
by RL_Quine 5y ago
Pretty often for cerebral scans you don't have a whole lot of room to move due to being literally restrained by the focusing gear. Most people who have done MRIs regularly get pretty good at not blurring the images; the more still you remain the less chance of them having to do another round.
- johnisgood 5y agoI stayed still for my first, too. It was really noisy. I dislike the part where it suddenly changes the "rhythm" but I prepared myself for that now. Going to get an MRI soon again.
- RL_Quine 5y agoYou do get used to it, believe it or not. One thing that helped me understand what was going on was looking at the output files, each pulse of the magnet is a slice within the images, and each sound corresponds to different types of measurement. I tend to just count them to work out what type of imaging is currently going on, it's ultimately pointless but it's something to focus on given the lack of other stimulus. You'll know you're there when the MRI tech comments that it's obvious you've done a lot of them because every image was perfect.
- johnisgood 5y agoThank you. It is not exactly an issue to me, I just know it is necessary, so I lay through it without movement. You gotta do what you gotta do. :)