CAT scans vs MRI scans

[bevischief]

Just finished the 3rd CAT scan over 6 years and now they want MRI for the first time. What differences do these these pick up? Besides I lose at least an hour.

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by SupDock

I have no doubt you were very good at it. I’m sure the familiarity and determination of the performing person is very important

The most user dependent modality but also the least regulated .

Just because it doesn’t use radiation doesn’t mean it can’t cause harm but it does but the only people who use it know this and aren’t really pushing for more regulation.

[stumppy]

Originally Posted by scho63

**** you you jealous douche.

You build scanners as an engineer so you think you a rocket scientist.

My escorts are better than what you're ****ing.
That's your pussy retort to anything I post. A one trick pony.

I know more than you tinker toy builder. Another person who thinks they know about me and what I know.

For the record scumbag, my paternal grandmother lost a breast to cancer, both grandfathers died of lung cancer, my mother died at 60 from ling and brain cancer, my father dies at 57 from liver cancer, my sister had aggressive skin cancer on her leg and had all her lymph nodes removed in her one leg, my two aunts died of cancer and one uncle died of cancer.

I've dealt with more cancers, doctors, CAT scans, MRIs, radiation, chemo than 95% of the people here.

So you can go **** yourself and take your shitty engineering degree with you blowhard.

Only on CP.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Wait...

...did I just read trash talking, "shut up engineer, in this thread about million dollar equipment that takes amazing images inside the human body... my whores are great.... ?

via GIPHY

There's the phrase "you're comparing apples and oranges." It's a useful phrase.

This though is like that phrase with an exponent. It's that phrase squared or cubed. It's like comparing hookers to ultrasounds....

[WilliamTheIrish]

Also, increase in dose can vary with certain radiolgist groups.

In this area, US Midwest, on ABD/ABD PELVIS scans, so many groups demand delayed imaging through the abdomen. So they inject, scan, get the series, and then wait on the order of 5 to 8 minutes and scan again diaphragm through the crest of the pelvis. And it’s done on damn near every patient. I can understand it on a trauma situation

That’s a lot of extra dose for low yield return on most patients.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Monticore

The problem with U/S is it is very user dependent tons of shitty techs out there or are expected to do things they are not qualified to do . CT has limitations as well I can see a stone in a ureterocele /UVJ but on CT it will look like it is the Bladder .

Most tech will just look for hydro and not bother going further and tracking the ureter all the way down trying to find the stone , being also an X-ray my training just wants to try and avoid this patient getting radiation so I would say I find it 90% of the time.

Good on you for being thorough. In diagnostic X-ray and US, it’s totally dependent on the individual. I made my radiology bones 3 decades back. From darkroom processing to daylight cassette to digital. Incredible strides in a short period. CT and all that.

And it opened doors in education and employment that I never dreamed of in the beginning.