What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Scanner?
 Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Scanner is a kind of medical equipment, which
doctors use it to examine and diagnose quite a number of illnesses
and disorders.
The device works on the co-effects of magnetic fields and radio
waves in building up the images that reflect the real shape of the
parts of the body, which the examinations are undergoing.
One among other advantages of this technique is that the patients
are exempted from exposure to the x-ray or the likes that might
take effect on human bodies, so the end result of this machine’s
performance, by comparison, is safe and accurate.
What is the benefit of MRI Scanner?
Show excellent images of parts of the body that are surrounded
by bone such as brain and spinal cord.
Show excellent images of joints such as knee, shoulder, ankle and
wrist.
Be used for examining the abdominal parts such as liver, kidney,
pancreas and spleen.
Be able to show a clear image of cerebral vessels.
Be able to show abnormalities of various parts of the body, though
how tiny it is!
Who need MRI scan?
•  A
person who has a neurological sign:
- Chronic headache
- Stroke
- Brain tumor
• A person who has a spinal
cord problem:
- Disc herniation
- Tumor of spinal cord
- Spinal cord injury
- Back pain
- Neck pain
• A person who has an orthopaedic
problem:
- Sport injury
- Chronic arthritis
- Avascular necrosis
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