Would you have an MRI scan for research?

Question

I did today, very interesting now I can prove to my friends I do have a brain after all!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa4ux_K7Fs8

Answer 1

The responder above is unkind. Radiologists are taught a lot about how things work. We are not mathmeticians nor engineers, so things have to be simplified for us a bit. Just as we have to simplify pathophysiology of disease to our patients. I had 3 years of college calculus, so am not totally unprepared to deal with the theories, but when I really got into it , it was way over my head. What we know is enough to know the strengths and weaknesses of a test as it applies to clinical medicine.  We do not really have to be a whiz at solving integral equations anymore to practice good medicine.

Answer 2

No because I am claustophobic and had to have one recently.  I found it a particularly distressing experience.

Answer 3

sure, just don't ask me to explain how it works.

when i was in college, that was my assignment, but our text had nothing on the subject, so I checked the Physics library... as our research group was all using the NMI lab at that time, the texts there were in circulation, so i ended up at the Medicine library.

Let me tell you, Doctors aren't taught diddily about how things work.  I went into my lecture explaining patiently to my class exactly what the medical texts reported as to how NMI works and... well, perhaps the laughter was only imagined, but you get the point.

My prof was mad at me, even though I pointed out that I had sat in his office for an hour while he talked on the phone the previous day to ask about the assignment.

Ah well.

Never trust a doc.