MRI

[North48]

I am having an MRI on the 11th of May and I asked if it was a T3 dynamic and they said it was a 3T but didn't know what the dynamic was.  Will this be the same?

[North48]

The micro non funct tumor has grown from a 3x4 mm to a 3x5 mm in 1 year and actually it's a little more than 1 mm because the 3x4 was really a 3x3.5.  The endo insists that this is not causing my headaches because it's just to small.  He also claims that a non-funct will not become functioning so there is no need to do any blood work.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

[rumpled]

That is a 1.5, not a 3T... You can tell if they pull you out - they have to stop the machine, and pull you out, inject, stuff you back in. The whole point of dynamic is NOT to stop the machine so they can take pictures while the contrast is given.

The other film was a 1.5 T too...

But yours is pretty visible, so they should be able to find it...

[LivingInHope]

"Utilizing a GE 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner multiplanar and multisequenced views of the pituitary gland were obtained."  I spoke to a radiological tech there after posting the above and she didn't make it sound like that's 3T- am I right?  She's planning to check the film to see if she can tell if they pulled me out or not- she said they do dynamic, but sometimes they have to pull a person out a little bit to put the dye in.

  The original MRI where the radiologist found the tumor to measure 4 x 6 mm, they described "Magnetic resonance imaging of the brian was accomplished in the environment of a high field "short bore" superconducting magnet operated at a field strength of 1.5 Tesla (Edge-Eclipse, Marconi)." etc.

[North48]

Thanks for the clarification, I will call and ask again.  I know I was just speaking to the scheduler.

[LivingInHope]

I've been parroting your "dynamic" MRI rhetoric to people on the forum but never realized that's what it meant!  I'm not sure they did it that way on my last MRI  I think they might have pulled me out put the dye in and put me back in- wonder if that's the way it was and if that would explain why it was barely seen and appeared smaller? (Radiologist thought 5 mm rather than 6 and didn't have enough to get a measurement the other direction like on one previously which I think was 6 by 4 mm.)

[rumpled]

If you were speaking to the scheduling people, they may not know, ask to speak to one of the techs directly.