Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Ax Flies at MRI Fire

A firefighter chopping a hole in the roof of a burning medical building Sunday had his ax ripped from his hands and through the roof by the force of a magnet in an MRI machine below...




Tags: MRI fire, firefighter, Ax


Sunday, March 28, 2010

MRI Safety Alert

Magnet failed to quench as the quench button was pressed...



Tags: Magnet quench, quench button, fire


Saturday, March 13, 2010

SEGMENT (Medical Image Analysis Software) for Mac OS X



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Tags: Cardiac MRI, application software, SEGMENT


Friday, February 26, 2010

No Fear MRI


Useful information for both MRI techs & patients: No Fear MRI



Tags: Claustrophobia, successful MRI


Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC)




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Tags: Cerebral perfusion, dynamic susceptibility contrast, DSC, signal-time curve, concentrative-time curve, arterial input function, AIF, relCBV, rCBF, MTT

Source:
Swanson SD. MR Methods to Measure Cerebral Perfusion. In: MR Imaging in White Matter Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005; 83-91.